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Jeff Beal ’85E, a noted TV and film composer, won his fourth Emmy Award this fall for his work on The Company, a TNT series. Beal, whose work could also be heard this fall in the theatrical release Appaloosa, received the Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special Program (Original Dramatic Score). He was not the only Rochester alumnus up for the top award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Also nominated were Arlene Sanford ’73 for outstanding direction for her work as director of an episode of the ABC series Boston Legal. And Doug Abeles ’81 was nominated as a member of the writing staff for NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Thomas Metcalf ’73M (Res), a Salt Lake City physician, received a 2008 Child Advocacy Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, an award that recognizes academy members who who have led efforts to advocate for children in their communities. Metcalf, a pediatrician at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, was cited for his work to improve and expand health insurance for children.
Susan Hockfield ’73, the president of MIT, and Steven Chu ’70, ’98 (Honorary), a Nobel laureate and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, were one half of a panel of national experts tapped by the Science Coalition and the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation to make the case for more support for basic research to help solve America’s growing appetite for energy. The two top scientists were joined by Charles Holliday Jr., chair and CEO of DuPont, and George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association, for the panel “Fueling America’s Future Depends on Funding Energy Research Today.” Representing 45 of the nation’s leading public and private research universities, including Rochester, the Science Coalition is a nonprofit organization that focuses on sustaining the federal government’s commitment to U.S. leadership in basic science.
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