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Macrene R. Alexiades '89, a biology concentrator from Jamaica Estates, N.Y. was given the award by Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner in a ceremony yesterday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard...
Alexiades will enter Harvard Medical School after spending a year in Greece on a Fulbright grant. The Westinghouse award winner has conducted biology research for several professors. Her thesis was on the "transcriptional and translational photoregulation of nuclear and chloroplast genes in two strains of rice and their progeny," according to a Radcliffe news release...
Bush ran as the "Education President" and has not let down the public. The most striking figure is in the Bush budget, which allocates $441 million in new spending for education programs--$250 million "merit schools" program, aimed at reducing dropout rates, a $8 million program to award outstanding teaching, and $3 million in outlays for education of homeless children. Another program receiving significant praise has been one providing $60 million in matching grants for the endowments of Black colleges...
...winners were chosen from 153 contestants, and each received a cash award of $1500 to use any way he or she chose, a spokesperson for the committee said...
Journalists usually report the news, not make it, but every so often a story helps make history. Last week TIME received the Overseas Press Club award for the best general-magazine article for its interview last October with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat (in the judges' view, "almost surely one factor in the opening of a new U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue") and for the cover story seven weeks later on the start of that dialogue. Also honored was photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, who received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for capturing "the chaos and panic provoked by a terrorist attack...