Summer 2012 Zeitgeist

A new endowed faculty chair in neuroscience

Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Jennie M. Carruthers Chair in Neuroscience

A good year for scholarships and postgraduate awards

Fulbright Scholarship: Laura Lasswell '12, Germany; Kat Schmidt '12, Germany

French Government Teaching Assistantship: Emily Strichartz '12, Serena Berkowitz '12, Emily Swisher '12, Elizabeth Hughes '12, Charlotte Cronin '12, Molly Gibson '11

Princeton-in-Asia: Max Honch '12, Thailand; Max Heston '12, China

Critical Language Scholarship: Peter Russell '12, Arabic

Udall Scholarship: Maggie Shanahan '13

Goldwater Scholarship: Kevin Halasz '12, Maggie Shanahan '13, Vienna Saccomanno '13

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals Fellowship: Jon Prentice '12

National Science Foundation Scholarship: Rachel Hood '09

North American Language and Culture Assistants in Spain: Sara Evert '12, David Pendleton '11, Sarah Rittenhouse '09, Daniel Watson '12

A decade of dominance: 10th consecutive Northwest Conference Women's Soccer championship

Players mentioned: Laura Grinstead Peterson '01, Maya Mendoza-Exstrom '03, Beth Taimi Tiffany '03, Cortney Kjar '06, Erin Williams '06, Bridget Stolee '05, Elizabeth Pitman '06, Janece Levien '09, Bird Folsom '08

Under construction: a new residence hall

A brief history of the human resources office

President Franklin Thompson, Mary Louise Curran '36, "Moon" Mullins, Linda Lott, William Frey, Rosa Beth Gibson, Cindy Matern

Media

Going Public by Hans Ostrom

Andrew Gardner, Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of the Global System

Jeff Matthews, Blacksheep Leadership: A Story About a Leaderhsip Challenge and the Nature of Transformational Leadership

Rob Beezer, Stephanie Tong, Hal Eastman '60, Greg Scheiderer

Nancy Bristow, American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Robin Dale Jacobson, Faith and Race in American Political Life

Lisa Mowat '95, Aephemera: Book Two of the Apocrypha series

Katherine Jenkins '92, Lessons from the monk I married

Chris Smith '77, Securing your financial future: Complete personal finance for beginners

Lafcadio Adams' 00, Stargazing for beginniners: How to find your way around the night sky

Jasper Tollefson '10, The Sweet Dark, Part I

Adelphians Concert Choir, Reflections: 2008-2011