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James Sanchez, 21, from the dusty high-desert town of Espańola, N.M., is a senior at Davidson College in North Carolina and an aspiring neuroscientist. He figured that at a bigger school he would have been lucky to spend his lab time washing beakers for the star scientists. At Davidson, where there are no grad students, Sanchez's senior thesis is an integral part of a larger three-year study of memory and learning in rats that may offer new insights into Alzheimer's. His professor anticipates that the research will be published in a top-shelf neuroscience journal...
...apply to at least nine schools (three stretches, three matches and three safeties), students run spreadsheets rating various criteria on a scale of 1 to 10, from the food to the student-teacher ratio to rates of acceptance into grad school. And then there are the unquantifiable assets. At Davidson, townspeople and professors bake cakes for the winners of the freshman cake race and students boast that scattered around the campus are dollar bills held down by rocks, tangible evidence of an honor code so entrenched that if a dollar falls on campus soil, it stays there until the owner...
...week later, the Crimson trampled Columbia, 159-84. Jellie once again continued her domination of long-distance events by winning the 1650-yard freestyle by over twenty seconds. “We just went in ready to go,” junior co-captain Jessica Davidson said. “We wanted to try our hardest and not look back.” Ready for more of a challenge, Harvard faced Kansas in a dual meet with Northeastern. The Huskies were hardly a threat during the meet, as the Crimson beat them 244-74. The Jayhawks proved to be much...
...CAROL DAVIDSON New Braunfels, Texas...
...Robert Anthony Snow was born in Berea, Ky., and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1977 from Davidson College in Davidson, N.C. He did graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago. He was born June 1, 1955. He and his wife, Jill, married in 1987, have three children and lots of pets. They live in Fairfax County and have a weekend house on the Eastern Shore...