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...Allan M. Brandt, the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize for his comprehensive study of the tobacco industry. Brandt won the prestigious history prize, awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University, for his book, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.” “The premise of the book was that cigarettes represented so many central aspects of our culture,” Brandt, who was traveling and could...
Almost a year after the College revised a policy to reduce hazing on campus, a national study found that over half of all college students involved in school organizations experience the phenomenon. The study—which was conducted by Elizabeth J. Allan and Mary L. Madden, both associate professors at the University of Maine—found that 55 percent of students had encountered some form of hazing. Nine out of 10 students who had been hazed by the report’s standards said they did not think they had been hazed. The report defines hazing...
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt, whose recent book, “The Cigarette Century,” addresses the history of cigarette consumption in the U.S., said he is in full support of the plan...
Some months earlier, he had stated that the search was “a couple of weeks” behind the one for the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Allan M. Brandt was appointed GSAS dean in December...
...shot the A-bomb tests of the 1950s and stories on autism and education, but Allan Grant, a staff photographer for LIFE magazine from the '40s through the '60s, made his name capturing stars. The dashing Grant caught Howard Hughes flying his Spruce Goose in 1947, Richard Nixon atop his house during the 1961 Brentwood-Bel Air fire and the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe alive (shown above). Grant...