Alumni Gazette
In the News
“All you need is a ball.”
—Awista Ayub ’01 in Glamour,
on why she chose soccer as a youth outreach program in Afghanistan. In July,
Ayub was named the magazine’s Hero of the Month for establishing the Afghan
Youth Sports Exchange, which helps Afghan girls start soccer teams in their
own communities, and she was named “Person of the Week” by ABC
Nightly News. In addition, two players sponsored by her organization to
play in the United States in 2004, who now play for the Afghanistan national
women’s soccer team, received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPN’s
Espy Awards this summer.
NASA Scientist Receives Astronomy Prize
Tod Strohmayer ’92 (PhD), an astrophysicist
at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, won the 2006 Bruno Rossi Prize from
the American Astronomical Society for his pioneering work on the exotic environment
around fast-spinning neutron stars. He shares the award with Deepto Chakrabarty
of MIT and Rudy Wijnands of the University of Amsterdam.
Author, Administrator Named Chair of Hampshire College Board
Psychologist, author, and academic administrator Florence
Cawthrone Ladd ’58 (PhD) was elected chair of the Hampshire College
board of trustees. Ladd has been a member of the board since 1995. A former
director of the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and dean at MIT and Wellesley
College, Ladd is working on her second novel.
MD Expert Elected Fellow of AAAS
Kevin Campbell ’79 (PhD), the Roy J. Carver
Chair of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Iowa and a Howard Hughes
Medical Institute investigator, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences. Campbell is internationally recognized for discovering
genetic and molecular causes of muscular dystrophy.
Administrator Named Head of New School
Marc Holzer ’66, longtime chair of the
public administration department at Rutgers University, was named dean of the
university’s new School of Public Affairs and Administration. The school
will offer doctoral and master’s degrees as well as certificate programs.
Poet’s Collection Wins Award
Kate Light ’80E, ’82E (MM) received
the inaugural Donald Justice Poetry Award for her third book, Gravity’s
Dream: New Poems and Sonnets. Her first collection of poetry, The Laws
of Falling Bodies, won the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize.
Accounting Professor Named Outstanding Educator
Lawrence Brown ’75S (PhD), the J. Mack
Robinson College of Business Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at Georgia
State University, was named the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding
Educator for 2006. Brown is recognized as a leading expert on forecasts of accounting
earnings.
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