Alumni Gazette
In the News
“You want them to learn lessons that are powerful but benign. . . .
But when you have a kid leave their bike out, it gets run over and rusty, and
you say, ‘O.K., honey, we’ll buy you a new one,’ they never
learn to put their bike away.”
—Mary Sapon-Shevin ’77W (EdD), a professor
of teaching and leadership at Syracuse University, in a Newsweek story
about the role of parents in helping—or undermining—their children’s
development as students.
Neurologist Honored for Alzheimer’s Research
John Morris ’74M (MD), the director of
the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Washington University in St.
Louis, has received one of neurology’s most prominent honors for his work
to understand the early stages of the debilitating disease. Morris, who also
is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology
at Washington, and Ronald Peterson, director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease
Research Center in Rochester, Minnesota, received the 2005 Potamkin Prize from
the American Academy of Neurology. Sometimes described as the “Nobel Prize
of Neurology,” the award honors researchers for their work in helping
advance the understanding of Alzheimer’s and related disorders.
Composer Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Don Freund ’73E (DMA), a professor at
Indiana University’s School of Music, will have additional support for
compositional and other research projects, thanks to a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Freund, a member of the Indiana faculty since 1992, was one of 186 artists,
humanists, and scientists in the United States and Canada selected for the prestigious
award. The fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation.
A 17-Year Presidency Ends
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Geibel (Photo: Carlow University) |
For the first time in 17 years, a 2,200-student university in Pittsburgh is
being led by someone other than Sister Grace Ann Geibel
’75E (PhD). Geibel stepped down as president of Carlow University on June
30, when she was formally named president emeritus of the mostly women’s
institution that she had graduated from in 1961 and that she had headed since
1988. Her successor is Mary Hines, formerly the executive officer at Penn State
University’s Wilkes-Barre campus. Founded in 1929 as Mount Mercy College
by the Sisters of Mercy, the Roman Catholic religious order of which Geibel
is a member, the school received state permission last fall to change its designation
to a university. Before being named president, Geibel served as academic dean
and cochair of the college’s music department.
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