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...pictures of life on the Mississippi were the hit of the Whitney Biennial in New York City. In June, he was made a nominee of Magnum Photos-the first step to becoming a full member of the prestigious co-operative, and the photography equivalent of landing a junior fellowship at Oxford. Then, in August, his book Sleeping by the Mississippi was published to widespread acclaim (the Washington Post spoke reverently of Soth's "Old Master formality"). The next stop is England, where Soth's Mississippi exhibition runs at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until...
After graduating in June, Rogers has stayed in Cambridge through a Harvard University Management Fellowship and has continued her push for renewable energy, which she began last spring as a council representative...
...initial "Eureka!" moment and a marketable business can be breathtakingly brief. It's true that they were not the first to develop an optical trap. This has been a hot area of scientific inquiry at least since 1986, when Bell Labs invented one. (Grier had done a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Labs.) Back then, Bell Labs scientists invented a single-beam "optical tweezers" that trapped just one substance. That was a monumental breakthrough, but scientists began to ponder traps that could catch multiple substances and move them from one point to another. Since their plastic fantastic moment gave Grier...
...that rely on the legal precedent set by the Boy Scouts of America in 2000, a Christian law group is battling university officials across the country to be allowed to bar gay members. The bylaws of the 42-year-old Christian Legal Society, which was founded to foster Christian fellowship in the law profession, permit only gays who have repented their sins to join. Because of this rule, college officials denied registration to several of the association's 80 chapters, stripping them of funding. "We have a strict policy against discrimination that won't be compromised," says Fran Marsh, spokeswoman...
...Shea was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and has also won a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering and a Presidential Faculty Fellow Award. Perhaps her most notable award is the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology. A quarter of those who win the award go on to win Nobel Prizes...