New York|What We Found in Robert Caroâs Yellowed Files
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Transcripts of interviews with âRM,â Robert Moses, whose public works projects transformed much of New York.Credit.Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times
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What We Found in Robert Caroâs Yellowed Files
The author of âThe Power Brokerâ and a multivolume biography of L.B.J. is giving awed archivists â and New York â access to more than 50 years of research.
Transcripts of interviews with âRM,â Robert Moses, whose public works projects transformed much of New York.Credit.Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times
BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now.
We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificity as
Arctic Dreams. A few years later, while you were working on that book,
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Entrada Therapeutics, a privately-held biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the treatment of devastating diseases using intracellular biologics, today announced the appointment of Peter S. Kim, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors.
“Dr. Kim is a pioneering scientist with over 30 years of experience in both academia and the biopharmaceutical industry,” stated Dipal Doshi, President and CEO of Entrada Therapeutics. “He has been recognized with countless honors, awards and appointments throughout the course of his career and we are extraordinarily fortunate to welcome him to our Board of Directors. Dr. Kim’s scientific and drug development expertise and experience will contribute to Entrada’s success in developing groundbreaking therapies.”
Sullivan to share experiences as ‘Most Vertical Person on Earth’
By SCCF - | Jan 6, 2021
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Dr. Kathryn Sullivan
The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation announced that Dr. Kathryn Sullivan will talk about her career as “the most vertical person on Earth” at the 3rd Annual Paul McCarthy Memorial Lecture Series via Zoom. The 45-minute lecture will be offered live on Feb. 4 at 5:30 p.m.
“We are honored to have Dr. Sullivan share her fascinating story of being the first person to both orbit the planet and reach its deepest point,” SCCF Chief Executive Officer Ryan Orgera said.
Aside from her amazing experiences of spending more than 500 hours in space and plunging seven miles down into the depths of the ocean, Sullivan has held a variety of senior executive positions.
Federal Reserve Board appoints Brown president chair of Boston Fed board
Christina H. Paxson, an economist, higher education leader and president of Brown University, will serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston s board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University President Christina H. Paxson, an economist and professor of economics and public policy, has been appointed to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
The Federal Reserve Board noted Paxson’s appointment in announcing on Dec. 23 the chairs and deputy chairs for each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks across the nation. Paxson has served as a member of the Boston Fed’s board of directors since 2016 and as deputy chair since January 2019.