The national program tries to make poetry a part of daily life by posting lines of verse in city buses. The Albert J. Beveridge Award is given annually for the best work in American history from 1492 to the present, and the Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize is for the best book in English on any significant aspect of Latin American history. He got to be a millionaire Wrong show, but right idea. Rock-solid service Alison Boden has been appointed to a second term as dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Since becoming Rockefeller's fifth dean in 1995, Boden has increased attendance at Sunday services, created more opportunities for local preachers to speak, initiated study groups among different religions, and developed programs to introduce new students to surrounding neighborhoods.
Professors win medal.
James Cronin and Leo Kadanoff. The White House looked like a Physical Sciences Division faculty meeting on March 14. Two other researchers who received the 1999 medals have Chicago connections. Mathematician Felix E. Browder, now at Rutgers, is the U of C's Max Mason distinguished service professor emeritus. Lynn Margulis, AB'57, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts, is known both for her work on eukaryotic cells and her advocacy of the Gaia theory.