In the News

“Math, with its inner consistency and beauty, is very much like music. There’s an inner harmony, just something very beautiful.”

—Leonard Parker ’60, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, in a profile of his work that appeared as part of the series “Groundbreaking Thinkers in Wisconsin” published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Sturge-Apple ’92 Recognized for Research

Melissa Sturge-Apple ’92, a researcher at the University’s Mt. Hope Family Center, received the 2007 Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award from the National Council on Family Relations for an article on how marital conflict influences parenting duties. Sturge-Apple was the lead author on the paper, “Hostility and Withdrawal in Marital Conflict: Effects on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Inconsistent Discipline,” which was published in the November/December 2006 issue of the journal Child Development. The article was cowritten with Patrick Davies, professor of psychology at Rochester, and Mark Cummings, a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame.

Alumna Named Peace Fellow

Maha Khan ’99, a student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, was one of 31 students chosen as a “Fellow for Peace” by the Advocacy Project of Washington, D.C. As part of her fellowship, Khan spent the summmer in Pakistan, working with the Afghan Institute of Learning, a partner of the Advocacy Project. The project selects students to work with community-based human-rights and advocacy organizations around the world.

Kahn ’74 Heads Miami’s Business School

Barbara Kahn ’74 is the new dean of the business school at the University of Miami. Kahn, who earned her PhD at Columbia University, had been a vice dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on marketing, she has served as the president of the Association of Consumer Research, the leading consumer marketing academic society.