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29-October-2001
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College news

by Evan Silverstein

ST. PAUL, MN - Macalester College alumnus Kofi Annan (class of 1961), the
secretary-general of the United Nations, recently was named a co-winner of
the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Annan, a native of Ghana, was a Macalester
trustee from 1994 to 1997 and delivered the 1998 commencement address. He
attended the Presbyterian-related college for four semesters from 1959 to
1961 through a Ford Foundation program that places foreign nationals in U.S.
colleges and universities. The 63-year-old Annan, an Episcopalian, was a
state champion orator while attending Macalester and also served as
president of the Cosmopolitan Club, which promoted international
friendships. He and the UN jointly received the Nobel for their efforts "to
achieve peace and security in the world."

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TULSA, OK - A University of Tulsa psychology professor, Elana Newman, a
leading researcher into the psychological impact of working in journalism,
has been named director of an office in New York City that will assess and
serve the needs of news organizations and journalists traumatized from
covering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The office is being established
through a $250,000 grant from the Dart Foundation of Mason, MI, founder of
the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the University of Washington in
Seattle. The Manhattan office, to be known as Dart Center Ground Zero, is
expected to operate until June 2002.

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CHARLOTTE, NC - Pamela S. Lewis, Dean of the McColl School of Business at
Queens College, was appointed president-elect by the college Board of
Trustees on Oct. 19. Lewis will succeed long-time president Billy O.
Wireman, who is retiring next June 30. Lewis came to Queens in April 2000
from Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she was a professor of
management and Dean of the Bennett S. LeBow College of Business.

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SPOKANE, WA - Susan Mabry, an assistant professor of mathematics and
computer science at Whitworth College, has been chosen to receive a $188,000
National Science Foundation grant for research and development work on
intelligent software agents, or "softbots," that run so-called "smart"
computers. The grant will also support research on adaptive neural networks
and genetic programming.
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