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Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies will be awarded the Lester R. Ford Award today by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the world’s largest organization dedicated to collegiate mathematics education...
...Lester R. Ford Award—named after a former editor of American Mathematical Monthly and president of the MAA—was created in 1964 to recognize authors of articles in the magazine that demonstrated expository excellence, according to an MAA press release...
...Staff writer Amelia E. Lester can be reached at lester@fas.harvard.edu...
...bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another. In his new book, Weirdos in the Workplace, Putzier argues that even the quirkiest employees--from crazy Annie, who talks to her pets on the phone once a day, to annoying Lester, who pesters you to buy his daughter's Girl Scout cookies--have their merit. The book contains humorous real-life case studies that exemplify the growing phenomenon of "doing your own thing." After all, we live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor, in which "everyone wants their...
...efficacy are confirmed. However, in the case of Plan B, it seems that the FDA disregarded protocol in hopes of gratifying conservative interests. In fact, two FDA officials, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Steven Galson and acting FDA commissioner Lester M. Crawford are being urged to resign for playing politics at the FDA. Some congressmen are also calling for an investigation of the FDA in order to determine whether their dealings were, in fact, politically motivated...