In her senior year at Fordham University, Kathleen Galvin was told where to apply to graduate school. The two professors in Fordham’s Department of Speech asked their top students to apply to various schools across the country, “so they could see how good their department was,” she told the RoundTable. She wandered into the office one...

She began with a portrait of her house. “I thought it would be fun to have the front of the house on the garage,” she says. In a palette more vivid than authentic, she painted a fairy-tale dwelling – pink trees framing a cozy home, its windows aglow, set against a star-spangled sky.

At dusk, the mammals classified as “hand-wings” fly from the darkness of their daytime roost – a cave, an abandoned building or perhaps a hole in a tree – using echolocation to navigate through the rich night air. They are bats, of the order chiroptera, from the Greek words for hand (chir) and wing (pteros).