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The full list of 1996-97 Nieman Fellows includes: Cohen; Lee; Read; Robert Blau, an editor/reporter at the Chicago Tribune; Mark Jaffe, an environmental reporter, and Marjorie Valburn, a staff writer, both at The Philadelphia Inquirer; Laura King from the Associated Press Tokyo Bureau; Terri Lichstein, a producer at ABC...
Jaffe will serve for one year as president-elect starting February 1, 1996, and then as president during 1997 and 1998. He will replace Cathleen S. Morawetz, a mathematician at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
"1995 was a banner year for mathematics, with major mathematical progress made in many areas," Jaffe said in a statement.
While he said he believes the field to be "fundamentally healthy," Jaffe cautioned that there are many areas for concern, including declining funds for research and a shortage of teaching jobs.
Jaffe, who is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, pointed to the revolution in electronic publishing as an area in which he said the AMS can play an important role.