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Professor David Rosand will be honored at a one-day symposium to be held at Columbia on Friday, October 17, 2008. The event will bring together Professor Rosand’s colleagues and former graduate students to present research and personal reflections on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and retirement. Organized by Jodi Cranston (’98 PhD) and Maria Ruvoldt (’99 PhD), the symposium will feature a keynote address by Professor Deborah Howard of the University of Cambridge, and papers on a wide variety of topics related to Professor Rosand’s past and current research. Speakers will include James Saslow, William E. Wallace, Mary Vaccaro, and Jonathan Crary.
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Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Fletcher Asset Management, Inc., today announced the selection of the 2008 class of Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellows. A charitable initiative created in 2004, the Fletcher Fellowship program commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Each of this year’s four Fletcher Fellows will receive a stipend of $50,000 for work that contributes to improving racial equality
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