Ray F. Attner, Brookhaven College business management professor, was selected as a Piper Professor of 2006 by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation of San Antonio for superior teaching at the college level.

Free and open to the public, two new exhibitions open Feb. 6. What will befall her? features large-scale drawings by Fahimeh Vahdat, while the Amy Halko exhibition offers new work in ceramic vessel forms.

New Orleans City Council member Oliver M. Thomas Jr. will address New Orleans evacuees in a "State of the City" address followed by a question and answer period. Many community service agencies will attend and provide information. Jan. 18, 6:30-9 p.m. at Brookhaven College's Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute, Building H.