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The Getty Grant Program has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Index of Christian Art to support the initial phase of a project to create an online, digitized, searchable catalog of the medieval manuscripts in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. [>>more]
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has
awarded Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowships to graduate students Scott Bruce, Martin Ruehl
and David Silverman in History; Elizabeth Guenther in Art
and Archaeology; and Julie Park in English. Each will
receive $15,000.
Professor of Psychology Charles Gross has been
inducted as a fellow in the Biological Sciences division of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Associate Professor of German Thomas Levin has
been invited by the Dutch Ministry of Culture to spend this
fall as curator in residence in the Netherlands, working
with the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in
Rotterdam.
Provost Jeremiah Ostriker, Charles A. Young
Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, has
been awarded the Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the
Astronomische Gesellschaft. As Schwarzschild medalist, he
delivered the keynote lecture at the society's annual
meeting in September.
Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus,
Carl Schorske has received the Centennial Medal from
Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This award
honors a graduate alumnus for contributions to society that
emerged from his or her graduate education.
Dear Dr. Tsien,
My name is D.H. I am eight years old, and I'm in third grade. I'm very interested in animals, and I'd like to have a mouse as a pet. I read the article in Time magazine about your research on mice. I'd really like a mouse like Doogie that you changed the DNA cells in. I'd like to know what the tests are that you put Doogie through, and I'd like to know what kind of mice Doogie's parents were. Can you help me get a smart mouse like Doogie? Thank you very much.
Dear D.H.,
I'm sorry to say the mice Dr. Tsien created in his experiments are not available as pets. They are available only to other scientists who are trying to understand how the brain works. However, I hope you will continue to read and work hard in your math and science classes in school. Perhaps you may choose to study biology and find for yourself how animals like the Doogie mice can unlock the secrets of the human mind and body.
Steven Schultz (responding for Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Joe Tsien, whose research on genetically altered mice has received extensive media coverage in the past few weeks)