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...wrote this as a personal memorial to my friend, it is an attempt to keep her present and not have her forgotten which is what happens when people die. They get forgotten really fast," says Thernstrom, who graduated summa cum laude in English...
Graduating summa cum laude in both Chemistry and Physics in 1953, Gilbert received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1957 before returning to Harvard as a lecturer the following year. Ten years later he was tenured after climbing from assistant and associate professorships. In 1980 Gilbert won the Nobel Prize for chemistry and in 1982 he resigned from Harvard so he could assume his full-time duties as head of Biogen, a biotechnology firm...
Especially that of Samuel Tibbetts, summa cum laude from Stanford with extracurricular honors in Marxism. Tibbetts is a study in sociopathology, a graphic mug shot of the intellectual as free radical: corrosive, amoral, tyrannical and remorseless. He is not above ordering the deaths of colleagues he feels do not toe his party line. Tibbetts and his followers are eventually captured in 1978 and brought to trial in Boston for murder...
...young Alan had displayed a natural affinity for numbers by the time he was five. He could add large sums in his head and rattle off baseball players' batting averages. A mediocre student at George Washington High School, Greenspan went on to receive his bachelor's degree in economics summa cum laude from New York University in 1948. He entered the doctoral program at Columbia University, where he came under the tutelage of the soon-to-be- legendary Arthur Burns. Greenspan left to go into business for himself in 1953 and never got around to completing his degree (finally granted...
...Faculty also voted to create a transitionperiod, so this year's summa candidateswere judged by whichever criteria was morefavorable. The same rules will also apply to nextyear's graduating class...