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...Year, Baldomero M. Olivera, at a reception in Pforzheimer House this past Friday. The event kicked off the Foundation’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which took place on Saturday. Past Scientists of the Year have included Mae C. Jemison, the first black female astronaut, and Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher famous for training and encouraging Latinos in Los Angeles to take and pass the Advanced Placement Calculus exams. Olivera, a professor of biochemistry and neuroscience at the University of Utah, was born and raised in the Philippines, where...
...pick up more of a burden,” especially for low-income students whose grants may be reduced due to the redistribution of financial aid funds and programs, Toiv said. Martha E.H. Holler, the managing director of corporate communications at the student-loan provider company Sallie Mae, said “it is not the time to cut financial aid programs.” “We’re not addressing the problem by moving multiple programs to another,” she said. Under President Bush’s budget, the maximum Pell Grant would increase...
...with Pender's company and decided to stay on. He failed his first screen test, then got a contract, his "nom de screen" and not much more from Paramount, where he made nearly a quarter of his films and no strong impression. He was noticed opposite Mae West and Marlene Dietrich, but it was in 1936, on a loan-out for an RKO flop, Sylvia Scarlett, that he finally "felt the ground under his feet," as George Cukor, the film's director, would put it. He played a type he had known in his past, a Cockney con man with...
DIED. Effie Mae Howard, 70, reluctantly famous, critically acclaimed African-American quiltmaker whose colorful, multitextured, geometric works--designed, she said, after intense private prayer--are now in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Oakland Museum under her pseudonym, Rosie Lee Tompkins; in Richmond, Calif...
...rowdy four-year span (1930-34) when the movies had just learned to talk and were mouthing off about what Sturges called Topic A: sex. This liberated period featured dozens of sagas of tough broads on the make or on the skids. Three of the best are collected here. Mae Clarke plays a world-weary prostitute in Waterloo Bridge. Jean Harlow is an unrepentant gold digger, leaving broken hearts and two corpses in her wake, in Red Headed Woman. And the great Stanwyck, as sharp as a slap, sleeps her way to the top in the all-time sleazerrific Baby...