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David Swensen, Yale University’s chief investment officer and one of the nation’s most influential higher education endowment fund managers, passed away at the age of 67 after a bout with cancer.
The Road To Yale: Swensen was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, where his father, Richard Swensen, was a chemistry professor and dean at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Swensen received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the university in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1980.
Swensen worked on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers before returning to Yale in 1985 as the Yale endowment manager, even though the position came with an 80% decrease from his Wall Street salary.
Sylvia Poggioli
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR s International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli s on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
Since joining NPR s foreign desk in 1982, Poggioli has traveled extensively for reporting assignments. These include going to Norway to cover the aftermath of the brutal attacks by a right-wing extremist; to Greece, Spain, and Portugal reporting on the eurozone crisis; and the Balkans where the last wanted war criminals have been arrested.
The National Academy of Sciences elected three members of Penn State s faculty to its membership, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology; Jainendra K. Jain, Evan Pugh University Professor and Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics; and Peter Mészáros, Eberly Chair Professor, emeritus, of Astronomy and Astrophysics, have been recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Esther Takeuchi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Takeuchi, a leading battery researcher at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University professor, joins a longstanding tradition that recognizes excellence across fields
May 4, 2021
Esther S. Takeuchi, a joint appointee of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, in 2017.
UPTON, NY–Esther S. Takeuchi, a celebrated materials scientist and chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In a tradition that dates back to 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors scientists, artists, scholars, and leaders in the public, non-private, and private sectors who rise to the world’s challenges.
Book Launch for Mule Kick Blues: And Last Poems, published by City Lights. The last book by the late Beat Generation legend Michael McClure with Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles and featuring Garrett Caples.
The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end.
Mule Kick Blues is the final book of poems by Beat Generation legend Michael McClure. A powerful collection of new work written during the last years of McClure s life, Mule Kick Blues was readied for publication before the poet s death in May 2020. Its opening section gives us a rare view into his thoughts about his own mortality, particularly in the moving sequence Death Poems. The book takes its title from an innovative series of homages to blues musicians like Leadbelly and Howlin Wolf, and evoking Kerouac s concept of blues poems. Featuring shout-outs to lifelong friends like Philip Whalen, Diane di Prima, and Gary Snyder, the long poem Fragments of