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Volume 24 number 1 - Fall 2003

Cyma Rubin Receives Honorary Doctorate

Cyma Rubin, who graduated from NC State with a degree in textile management, received an honorary doctorate of fine arts at the commencement exercises on May 17, 2003, for her outstanding work in the arts. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Library at NC State.

Rubin is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning producer, director, and writer. She produced and directed "Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs," a television documentary examining six Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs. The documentary, which aired on Turner Network Television, won the 1999 Emmy award for best documentary. She also is curator of the exhibition The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment, which is being shown at the D. H. Hill Library through December 13, 2003. Rubin wrote the exhibit catalog.

Rubin's professional credits are numerous. Her first Broadway show, No, No, Nanette, won four Tony Awards. She went on to produce other musicals that were nominated for a total of eleven Tony Awards. She has worked as a film producer, one of which, Greaser's Palace, won the London Film Festival Award. She produced "A Few Days in Weasel Creek" and "Welcome Home, Bobby" for CBS Television. Other productions include work for the Houston Grand Opera, the American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Argentino, and the New York Boys Choir. She was the cultural producer for Nippon Television International for nine years.

Rubin is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Overseas Press Club, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Friends of the New York Public Library, and several philanthropic organizations. She also lectures at New York University.