Alumni Gazette

In the News

“We all need to make meaning out of our lives, and this is one way people attempt to do it.”

—Tim Kasser ’94 (PhD), an associate professor of psychology at Knox College, in the New York Times, talking about new research into what motivates people to seek fame.

Arizona State, Georgia Tech Pick Alumni as Provosts

Two Rochester graduates began the academic year as provosts of prominent public universities. At Arizona State University, Elizabeth Capaldi ’65, the former vice chancellor and chief of staff for the State University of New York system, was named provost and executive vice president. And at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Gary Schuster ’71 (PhD) was named provost. Most recently serving as a dean at Georgia Tech, he has been a professor of chemistry at the Atlanta university since 1994.

Stevens Wins Georg Medal

David Stevens ’65M (MD), a professor of medicine at Stanford University, has been awarded the Lucille Georg Medal from the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. Presented once every three years, the award recognizes outstanding scientific achievement in medical mycology, a branch of biology that focuses on the biology and immunology of fungi.

Clarinetists Join ‘President’s Own’ U.S. Marine Band

Clarinetists Samantha Angelo ’06E and Lauren Miner ’06E (MM) have joined the U.S. Marine Band, one of America’s oldest professional musical organizations. Established by an Act of Congress in 1798, the band has played at every presidential inauguration since Thomas Jefferson’s administration in 1801. Known as “The President’s Own” band, the group’s primary duty is to provide music for the president of the United States and the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Alumna Reelected to Board of American Chemical Society

Judith Benham ’69, a retired business director at 3M Co. in St. Paul, Minn., has been reelected to the board of directors of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Benham began a second three-year term in January as director of District V, which includes 45 local sections of the society.

Economics Remembers Prominent Finance Scholar

A new fund named in honor of the late Lawrence Goldberg ’66 has been established to encourage undergraduates in the College to gain a fuller understanding of research and scholarship in economics. The Lawrence Gerald Goldberg ’66 Fund in Economics is supported by a bequest from Goldberg’s family to the University. Goldberg, a professor of finance at the University of Miami, published widely in finance and economics journals over the past 30 years. He died in March 2005.