FELLOWSHIP, Spring 2013 - Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship

FELLOWSHIP
Spring 2013
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FELLOWSHIPS
Final WW-RBF Fellows
Announced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Three Years Out: WW Teaching
Fellows Inspire Kids, Tackle
Challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New WW Teaching
Fellowship Campaign: “I teach
STEM because...” . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fellows in Science
Maria Luisa Crawford WF ’60. . 6
Ayana Arce CEF ’12 . . . . . . . . . 7
Kim J. Hopper CN ’86. . . . . . . . 8
The Newsletter of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
“Always About Opportunity”:
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, Sr. on Education and the Nation’s Future
T
of State Condoleezza Rice: Education
really is a matter of national security.
homas H. Kean, Sr. has had an
extraordinary career at the intersections of education and policy.
The former New Jersey Governor
(1982-1990) and Chair of the 9/11
Commission (2002-2004) began his
career as a high school history teacher.
From 1990 to 2005, he also served as
President of Drew University.
Long known as one of the nation’s “education governors,” Governor Kean
concurs with others like President
Barack Obama and former Secretary
Photo: Courtesy of Thomas H. Kean
“How we educate kids coming along
is going to determine how strong we
are as a nation. I think that’s incontrovertible,” he says. “It used to be good
enough, when I was growing up, to
have a high school education. It’s not
anymore. The statistics show that those
who get at least some college-level
studies are going to … support their
families better, and be more productive.
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Elissa Epel WH ’97 . . . . . . . . . . 9
BOOK SPOTLIGHT. . . . . . 12
David Berlinski WF ’63
King of Infinite Space: Euclid and
His Elements
Randy Alfred WF ’67
Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge,
Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed,
and 362 Other Inventions and
Discoveries That Made Our World
Stefan Sperling CN ’04
Reasons of Conscience: The
Bioethics Debate in Germany
NOTES ON FELLOWS. . . . 13
Mary Jo White WF ’70 Appointed
SEC Chairman
Sandra M. Faber WF ’66 Awarded
National Medal of Science
David Botstein WF ’63 Wins
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Sharon Olds WF ’64: 2013 Pulitzer
in Poetry Winner
FOUNDATION UPDATES. . 14
WW to Launch New Website
WW on Social Media
At a gala dinner in June in New York City, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation will
award its Medal for Distinguished Service to Education to the Honorable Thomas H. Kean, Sr., and will
present the Frank E. Taplin, Jr. Public Intellectual Award to Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs.
Writing the Future
Jeffrey D. Sachs
W
hat does the future hold for
the global economy? Will
living standards rise worldwide, as
today’s poor countries leapfrog technologies to catch up with richer countries? Or will prosperity slip through
our fingers as greed and corruption
lead us to deplete vital resources and
degrade the natural environment on
which human well-being depends?
Humanity faces no greater challenge
than to ensure a world of prosperity
rather than a world that lies in ruins.
admit), the future is a matter of human
choice, not mere prediction.
Despite the ongoing economic crisis
in Europe and the United States, the
developing world has sustained rapid
economic growth. What is happening
is both powerful and clear. Technologies that were once found only in
rich countries now belong to the entire world. Mobile phone coverage in
Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, has
gone from nearly zero subscribers
Photo: Courtesy of Ericsson.com
20 years ago to around 700 million
today. And those phones are helpLike a novel with two possible endings,
ing to bring banking, health care, education, business,
ours is a story yet to be written in this new century. There
government services, and entertainment to the poor.
is nothing inevitable about the spread—or the collapse—
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of prosperity. More than we know (or perhaps care to
MISSION
The mission of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is to identify
and develop leaders and institutions to meet the nation’s critical challenges.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2012-13
Walter W. Buckley, Jr., Chair
Buckley Muething Capital Management
William Lilley III WF ’59
iMap Data Inc.
George Campbell, Jr.
Seiden Krieger Associates, Inc.
Frank Lorenzo
Savoy Capital, Inc.
Christel Dehaan
Christel House International
Lauren Maddox
The Podesta Group
Jane Phillips Donaldson
Phillips Oppenheim
Nancy Weiss Malkiel WF ’65
Princeton University
Carl Ferenbach III
Berkshire Partners LLC
Karen Osborne
The Osborne Group
Frederick L. A. Grauer WF ’69,
Immediate Past Chair
Barclays Global Investors/BlackRock (ret’d)
Matthew Pittinsky
Parchment, Inc.
Jennifer Gruenberg
Marx Realty & Improvement Co. (ret’d)
Judith A. Rizzo
The James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for
Educational Leadership and Policy
N. Gerry House
The Institute for Student Achievement
Jeffrey L. Skelton
Symphony Asset Management (ret’d)
Thomas C. Hudnut
Harvard-Westlake School
Marvin J. Suomi
KUD International LLC
John Katzman
Noodle Education, Inc.
Luther Tai
Consolidated Edison Co. of
New York, Inc.
Shirley Strum Kenny WF ’56
Stony Brook University, State
University of New York
Jay P. Urwitz
WilmerHale
Carl F. Kohrt WF ’65
Battelle Memorial Institute (ret’d)
George A. Weiss
George Weiss Associates, Inc.
Jan Krukowski
Jan Krukowski & Co.
Paul J. Weissman
Centenium Advisors LLC
Arthur Levine
The Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation
John C. Wilcox WF ’64
Sodali Ltd.
Fellowship, the newsletter of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, is published semi-annually in spring and fall. Issues are also posted
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[email protected].
The Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation
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Chair of the Board: Walter W. Buckley, Jr.
T
he Woodrow Wilson Foundation has long stood not only for excellence in education, but for the impact that educational excellence
can have on every field of endeavor. Celebrating that core principle of
excellence, this June the Foundation will present the Woodrow Wilson
Medal for Distinguished Service to Education and the Frank E. Taplin, Jr.
Public Intellectual Award to two extraordinary individuals: former New
Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, who has been an educator, a policymaker, and a national leader; and economist Jeffrey Sachs, whose work
weds sustainability with economic development and globalization. We’re
privileged to bring you their perspectives in this issue of Fellowship.
This issue also takes a look at Woodrow Wilson scientists. Although the earliest
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships focused on preparing college professors in the
liberal arts, the program grew, in the 1950s and 1960s, to encompass the whole
of the arts and sciences. The original Woodrow Wilson Fellows include physicists, mathematicians, and cancer researchers as well as classicists, historians,
and literary scholars; some of them are now Nobel Laureates. The Foundation’s
current work in preparing math and science teachers—which complements
the array of ongoing Woodrow Wilson fellowships in the humanities and social
sciences—harks back to these earlier Woodrow Wilson scientists.
In these pages you’ll meet scientists from a range of Woodrow Wilson
programs: a Fellow who has studied some of the first moon rocks as well as
some of Earth’s oldest mountains; one who is figuring out what lies beyond
the Higgs boson; one for whom the newest frontier lies inside the brain;
and one who is redefining care for the mentally ill. You can also sample
new books by three Fellows on geometry, quirky inventions, and bioethics.
Some of the students of today’s Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows, who
are focused on the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering,
and math), may follow in these impressive footsteps. As the first Teaching
Fellows round out their third year in the classroom, we’re happy to
update you on their work, and on recent accomplishments by a number of
Fellows from other Woodrow Wilson programs that continue to promote
academic achievement across various disciplines.
Across fields, across sectors, across levels of education, the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation continues to stand for excellence, and to seek out and
cultivate exceptional talent. We hope you share our pride in the range of
endeavor that that commitment represents.
Abbreviations Used In This Issue:
CEF = Career Enhancement Fellow
CN = Charlotte Newcombe Fellow
DDCF = Doris Duke Conservation Fellow
DS = Dissertation Fellow
H = Honorary
President: Arthur Levine
MN = Mellon Fellow
Executive Vice President/
Chief Operating Officer: Stephanie J. Hull
SP = Spencer Fellow
Fellowship Newsletter Staff:
Andrea Miyares, writer
Antoinette Marrero, writer
Beverly Sanford, editor
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WH = Women’s Health Fellow
WF = Woodrow Wilson Fellow
WS = Women’s Studies Fellow
Fellowship
Final Cohort Announced in Woodrow
Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships
T
he final cohort of Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller
Brothers Fund (WW-RBF) Aspiring Teachers of
Color has been selected.
Each of the nine WW-RBF Fellows will receive a
$30,000 stipend to complete a master’s degree in education. Fellows prepare to teach in high-need public
schools, receiving guidance toward teaching certification and ongoing support throughout a three-year
teaching commitment.
The Fellows have all excelled academically, and most
also have volunteer mentoring and teaching experience, as well as a demonstrated commitment to
teaching. They come from institutions ranging from
the University of Southern Maine to Swarthmore and
Wellesley Colleges to the University of Arizona and
UC-Santa Barbara. (See full list of Fellows below.)
The Fellows, selected through a competitive national
process, must be nominated by one of the program’s
48 nominating institutions and 29 graduate education
programs. The Fellowship is intended to help address
a dearth of teachers of color nationally. Data from
2011 indicate that as few as 17 percent of the nation’s
teachers are teachers of color, while the student of
color population is now 45 percent nationally.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has administered
the WW-RBF program since 2009; it was established
in 1992 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to recruit,
support, and retain individuals of color as public education teachers and administrators. Since its inception,
the Fellowship has awarded nearly $8 million in grants
and financial assistance to more than 400 Fellows.
“The WW-RBF Fellowship has been a powerful
complement to the Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson
Teaching Fellowships, which focus on math and science teaching,” said Stephanie J. Hull, Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation. “We are proud to
have helped provide strong new teachers across a
wide range of disciplines for the students in high-need
schools who most need them.”
2013 Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund (WW-RBF) Fellows
Julio Alicea
Bethlehem, PA
Undergraduate college
and major: Swarthmore
College, Sociology and
Anthropology
David Flores
Pasadena, CA
Undergraduate college
and major: University of
California – Santa Barbara,
History
Brenda Angulo
Fontana, CA
Undergraduate college
and major: University of
California – Riverside,
Liberal Studies
Ruth Li
Logan, UT
Undergraduate college
and major: Wellesley
College, English
Ayesha Crockett
Louisville, KY
Undergraduate college
and major: The University
of Chicago, Biological
Sciences
Melanya Materne
Whidbey Island, WA
Undergraduate college
and major: University of
Washington, English
Abdoul Razak
Mahamadou Boubacar
Portland, ME
(Niamey, Niger, West Africa)
Undergraduate college
and major: University of
Southern Maine, Mathematics
Natiely Munguia
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Undergraduate college
and major: University of
Arizona, Political Science
and Spanish
Ricardo Quezada
Fullerton, CA
Undergraduate college
and major: University of
California – Santa Barbara,
History of Public Policy
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Three Years Out: WW Teaching Fellows
Inspire Kids, Tackle Challenges
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he Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships require
Fellows to make a three-year commitment to
teaching after they complete their master’s degree. For
the very first Fellows, who were named in Indiana in May
2009 and who did their master’s work in 2009–10, June
2013 marks the end of their third year in the program.
Forty-seven of those original 58 Fellows—more than
80 percent—are on the way to meeting their three-year
commitment. They are the first to note that some days
it’s a tough slog. For Georgia Watson, who teaches chemistry and ICP (integrated chemistry and physics), this year
it’s been some issues with parents. For Dustin Hughes, a
physics and algebra teacher, it’s the frustration of a changing policy landscape in which teachers have little say.
They’re also quick to say that they love what they do.
Having previously worked not only as a lab tech but
also as a substitute teacher, “I knew there were challenges ahead,” says Ms. Watson. Still, she is well settled in her third year at Warren Central High School,
a high-need public school in Warren Township, on
the east side of Indianapolis. “I love the kids, I love my
job, I love everybody I work with, I love the school.
I’ve just had to stand firm on some things.”
Georgia Watson greets students at the
classroom door. Photo: Courtesy WFYI
For Ms. Watson, the evolution of her teaching has been
clear. She went into her first year with a good sense of
classroom management, and so was able to focus much
more on content than some new teachers. “In the second year I got more comfortable with the way the
subject is defined in our curriculum. This year it’s time
to focus on pedagogy. I have some flexibility with the
standards now, because now I know how to work with
some parts of the subject matter before other pieces.”
Dustin Hughes had a rocky first-year transition in a placement that didn’t pan out (“I was notified that I would be
teaching a welding class, among others, when I have never
welded before,” he recalls), but is now thriving at Benton
Central Junior/Senior High School in rural western Indiana. Even with his Fellowship preparation, Mr. Hughes
says, “The first year was still a learning curve,” but his
recent experience has been “much more comfortable.”
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Dustin Hughes works with a student on a Rube Goldberg
design project. Photo: Courtesy of Dustin Hughes
Mr. Hughes—also a professional Ultimate Frisbee
player for the Indianapolis AlleyCats—makes sure to
take a sense of humor into the classroom with him.
During this year’s pre-spring break lethargy, for instance, “I made up a funny example problem. Even
though they were still doing the problem and taking
notes, the class was a positive in their minds. I feel
like a boring class is an unsuccessful class,” he adds.
Ms. Watson emphasizes the importance of her relationships with her students. She still gets visits and
notes from students who’ve graduated. “There’s one
student I had as a first-year teacher—she was a sophomore at the time, so now she has graduated and is
going to college. She wants to be a science teacher
too, and says I inspired her. I still cry. It’s fantastic.”
Another example: when Ms. Watson injured her foot
recently, an autistic student volunteered to stand at the
board for her. “I’m very proud of the relationship with
this student, because I know that standing in front of a
room full of people is not a strong point for an autistic
child.” She adds, “Some students aren’t going to get an
A or a B in chemistry, but they’ll try harder if they have
a good relationship with you.” So committed to the
power of strong relationships with students is she that
Ms. Watson would eventually like to offer seminars for
other teachers on how to connect better with students.
Both Ms. Watson and Mr. Hughes feel the choice to
teach has been a good one for them. “It’s the kids,”
Ms. Watson says. “I don’t know if anybody else can
go anywhere on their job and get as much love in an
eight-hour day. Even the little tantrums are love.”
Fellowship
WW Teaching Fellowship:
“I teach STEM because…”
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n a new campaign for the Woodrow Wilson
Teaching Fellowship, selected Fellows showcase
their reasons for teaching science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM disciplines—in highneed urban and rural high schools.
Pictured below are Candice Kissinger, a chemistry
and physics teacher at Tecumseh Junior High in Lafayette, Indiana; David Johnson, a math teacher at Lynhurst 7th & 8th Grade Center in Indianapolis, Indiana;
Shawn Roberts, a chemistry and physics teacher at
C.A.S.T.L.E. High School in Cleveland, Ohio; Steven
Feutz, a math teacher at Godfrey Lee High School
in Wyoming, Michigan; and Francis Winful, an algebra and geometry teacher at Cesar Chavez Academy
High School in Detroit, Michigan.
These five Fellows were also honored at center court
when Michigan State and Ohio State played in the Big
Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament on March 16. Their
introduction by the game’s halftime announcer garnered a standing ovation and round of applause from
the appreciative Big Ten audience, whose two universities also host Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows.
Follow the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship on
social media (see p. 14) for more photos and videos as
they are released. Do you teach STEM or support STEM
education? Feel free to submit your own photos and
videos on what inspires you to support STEM education.
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Mountains of Work
Maria Luisa Crawford WF ’60 shapes a field
I
t’s easy to see a mountain as a monolith, solid and
unchanging. But geologist Maria Luisa Crawford
WF ’60 has spent an entire career studying the origin—and the ongoing evolution—of mountains.
During her 40-year career, Dr. Crawford has conducted research on mountain ranges from southeast
Pennsylvania—“where the mountains have been
eroded down to the deep roots that once resided
about 30 kilometers under the surface”—to Alaska—
“where the mountain chain between Prince Rupert,
British Columbia and Juneau, Alaska was constructed
during the last 100 million years.” She focuses particularly on metamorphism, “the changes in rocks as they
are heated and buried during the development of the
mountain... and then return to the surface.” She also
conducted research in Oslo, Norway on a Fulbright
Scholarship. In 1993, she received a MacArthur Fellowship, the internationally known “genius grant.”
Dr. Crawford’s interests, like the mountains she
studies, have changed dramatically over time. For a
time, she studied some of the first moon rocks that
were brought to earth, and some of that early work
is still cited in lunar studies. Soon enough, however,
she decided that “I preferred to be investigating issues
when I could see the rocks involved and their context
personally.” Within the past decade, she has also been
part of the ongoing effort to create GEON, a massive
geoinformatics system that uses supercomputing to
store and coordinate data across the earth sciences.
As with most fields in science, technology has changed
geology significantly, Dr. Crawford says. “My field has
changed through advances in experiments on what
rocks undergo as they are heated and compressed,
advances in understanding the processes of plate tectonics and changes in data observed and deciphered
by other geologists working in areas similar to the
ones I study.” Some of the evolution in her field,
however, have been less about technology and more
about teamwork. “One of the changes for me,” she
notes,“has been the greater collaboration among geoscientists with a variety of skills and expertise working on problems in one area.” One example: working
with colleagues to determine how continental drift has
caused metamorphism in the mountains she’s studied.
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Awarded her Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1960
while at Bryn Mawr College, Dr. Crawford did her
doctoral work at the University of California. One of
few women in a male-dominated field, she was not
intimidated. “Since I was at an undergraduate college
that was mostly female students, I did not feel in any
Photo: Courtesy of Maria Luisa Crawford
way inhibited by the lack of role models once I progressed to graduate studies and professional work.”
While there are more women in science today than
when Dr. Crawford entered the field, the number of
women in geoscience, she says, still remains small.
“Geology may be more challenging than some fields
due to the need for work in the outdoors, sometimes
in very challenging circumstances. Also geology is one
of the careers that seem to require more quantitative
abilities and thus somehow results in being less attractive.” Engineering, she observes, likewise continues
to attract a relatively low number of women.
To assist women who are pursuing careers in geoscience, Dr. Crawford and her husband, also a noted
geologist, have established the Crawford Field Camp
Scholarship. Awarded through the Association of
Women Geoscientists and the National Association
of Geoscience Teachers, the scholarship helps offset
field camp expenses for female geoscientists.
“I am not sure that engaging student interest in science earlier is much of the answer, given that many
of the issues that result in women not continuing into
a career in science involve lifestyle choices that arise
after the college years,” says Dr. Crawford of how
to address the shortage of female scientists. Without
children, she points out, “I had a different career track
than many women colleagues…. Also I had a very supportive spouse with whom I shared much in my professional career. We were equals all along the way.”
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Fellowship
Infinitesimal Collisions, Fundamental Insights
Ayana Arce CEF ’12 describes current work on the Higgs boson
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or many non-scientists, the 2012 discovery of what
might be the Higgs boson was mysterious enough.
Since 1964, high-energy physicists had sought to prove
the existence of this elementary particle that might give
mass to other particles, but the general public was little
aware of the drama of the search. The hypothetical boson’s unfortunate and misleading nickname—“the God
particle”— only added to the confusion.
So what could it mean to learn, as scientists at CERN’s
Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland told the media in
March 2013, that the vaunted new
discovery might in fact not be the
Higgs boson, but a Higgs boson,
among other similar particles?
particles and interactions would soon saturate some of
the existing detectors and software. Her current work
focuses on creating both new detectors and new ways
of assessing what they will reveal. “These collisions
[produced by LHC upgrades] will include processes
that have never before been observed in a laboratory. By increasing the frequency of proton collisions we
will have better chances of studying these rare events,
which might include very massive new particles.”
The daughter of a computer scientist and a professor of
English and law—both on the Duke
faculty—Dr. Arce was fascinated
early on by the smallest components of matter. A writing assignment, she recalls, led her to particle
Ayana Arce CEF ’12, an assistant
physics. “In a high school math class,
professor of physics at Duke Univerevery student had to do a written
sity, works with the ATLAS detector
report on the practical applications
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
of vectors, and somehow I ended
The Higgs discovery, she explains,
up reading and writing about poneither fully proves nor disproves
larization vectors and quantum
what’s called the Standard Model,
electrodynamics. The fact that elecphysics’ basic but incomplete list of
trons didn’t act like normal ‘stuff’
known types of matter and interfascinated me. Today, I mostly reactive forces. Alternative theories,
Photo: SAO Science Media Group
member the assignment because it
such as supersymmetry, have been
was the only research paper I ever
proposed to encompass some phenomena—such as dark
did for a math class, and because it led more than one
matter—that the Standard Model can’t address.
student in that class to her eventual scientific career.”
“The issue is that because these theories must introEarly in her career, Dr. Arce has already participated
duce new kinds of matter, the simplest Higgs mechain several projects designed to bring high-energy
nism, in which one particle interacts with every kind
physics to the public and to K-12 audiences, and
of matter particle to generate its mass, doesn’t neceshas taken part in national panels on engaging more
sarily work. To use the Higgs mechanism to explain
women and people of color in scientific careers. “I
particle masses, these kinds of theories must introfocus on the known ways to make careers in science
duce new Higgs particles along with the extra matter
more accessible to students who already think they
particles they predict.” Hence, the recently confirmed
might like it,” she says, rather than on trying to conHiggs boson may turn out to be one of many.
vince those with other interests to consider science.
Noting that physicists are very careful with language
To make science careers more accessible, Dr. Arce
when they present findings conservatively, she adds,
adds, not only do reviewers, counselors, and teachers
“The simplest answer is not always the final answer,
need to cultivate talent without bias, but “we need to
and nothing forbids distinct Higgs fields from giving
take steps to reduce the obstacles that students face by
mass to different particles, so we have started emvirtue of being different from the perceived norm. Studphasizing this fact by calling it ‘a Higgs boson.’ If we
ies point to mentoring and role-models, as well as creatcan prove that this particle has the expected interacing networks for students, as useful tools for doing this.”
tions with most of the known matter particles—and if
See Dr. Arce in a video on the Large Hadron Collider at
we don’t discover supersymmetry in the meantime—
http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/the-lhc/55327/
perhaps we will start saying ‘the Higgs boson’ again.”
. She also explains fundamental particle interactions for
Planned upgrades to the LHC, Dr. Arce says, will reAnnenberg Learner in a video at http://www.learner.org/
veal still more about the essence of matter—but the
courses/physics/unit/text.html?unit=2.
collider enhancements needed to produce different
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A Saner Approach to Mental Illness
Kim J. Hopper CN ’86 explores new models of care
T
We found, for the most part, that
he biggest problem in menthere was no conversation going
tal health is our tendency to
on, so it managed to get a lot of
compartmentalize mental illness—
conversations started.”
to separate people with mental illness from others and to separate
Through this work Dr. Hopper
mental illness from overall health.
got involved in the recently funded
“Mental illness almost invariably
Parachute NYC program, which
is a sidecar to some other discusseeks to change the way health
sion, rather than a more general
and social professionals respond
discussion about what it means
to young people in a mental health
to think seriously about health in
crisis, minimizing initial damage.
a variety of departments,” says,
Borrowing from a Scandinavian
Dr. Kim J. Hopper CN ’86, medipublic psychiatry model of crisis
cal anthropologist and professor
response/respite, the Parachute
of clinical sociomedical sciences
program will offer a “soft landing”
at the Mailman School of Public
Photo: Christina Pratt
instead of a traumatizing “hospitalHealth, Columbia University and
ize/diagnose/medicate” response.
co-director of the Center for the
The first response will be to conStudy of Issues in Public Mental Health at the Nathan
vene the family and other affected parties into working
S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.
groups led by therapeutic teams. “[It] tends to hold
back on the question of ‘Is this a mental illness and if so,
Improving the quality of life for people with mental
what’s its name?’ in favor of ‘What’s going on here and
health issues, one of Dr. Hopper’s main concerns as
how can this group be differently configured so that
a medical anthropologist, necessitates collaboration
everybody can live together?’” If the individual does
from other institutional entities that do not see menneed to be extracted from the family setting, he or she
tal health as part of their purview. In a recent project,
receives a crisis respite placement in a non-hospital,
Dr. Hopper and his colleagues reimagined all people
non-medical setting, staffed by peers who have been
with severe mental illnesses in New York City—rethrough similar ordeals. “It’s got more than its share of
gardless of their living situation, whether with family,
implementation difficulties,” says Dr. Hopper, “but it’s
institutionalized, or on their own—as inhabiting their
also got some really interesting implications.”
own country, then applied Amartya Sen’s capabilities
approach and the United Nations Human DevelopIt was during his work as a Newcombe Fellow that
ment Index. The analysis showed that “they live at
Dr. Hopper became interested in questions about
roughly the level of a Moroccan peasant. Their life
mental health care. “I was in philosophy of religion,
expectancy can be as much as 20 years less than
doing work on values and philosophy and trying to
other folks. Their literacy rates are terrible and their
figure out how they should apply to medical quanincome is set at a rate that essentially expects them
daries in the clinical setting,” he recalls. “The more I
to live for free every sixth day.”
got into it, the more I realized that the values that we
really should care about are ones that are built into
So if the ability to pursue a life of one’s own is an index
everyday assumptions about right and wrong, proper
of recovery from mental illness, what would it take to
and improper, good and not-so-good. That’s what I
help these New Yorkers recover? “It takes not only a
took to mental health, because it’s those assumptions
great deal of work on individual agency, Sen’s engine
about essentially what’s good enough for people with
of development at the individual level,” Dr. Hopper
mental illness that need challenging,” explains Dr.
notes, “but it also means reworking the environment
Hopper. “It’s about trying to find a better way of askso that the necessary resources are available to feed
ing how we establish a floor beneath this question of
that agency: education, jobs, and, of course, affordwhat suffices as adequate for a variety of quality of life
able housing—resources which for this group are in
issues for people who have this diagnosis or have seen
restricted, and often qualified, settings. We argued that
this diagnosis sometime in the past. My issues are still
mental health could not do its job without the partall heavily driven by that concern.”
nership and collaboration of these other institutions.
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Minding Stress: “The Power of the Very Basics”
Elissa Epel WH ’97 explores the biopsychology of chronic stress
S
tress is inevitable, but suffering—accelerated
aging, weight gain, and other physiological fallout—may be optional, says Elissa Epel WH ’97. Dr.
Epel, an associate professor in the University of California-San Francisco Department of Psychiatry, explores
the effects of chronic stress and ways to alleviate them.
“We can’t get rid of stress,” she says. “I’m studying
how people cope and change over time. What do
people who thrive do differently, and how are they
different from people who become depressed?”
Dr. Epel, director of UCSF’s Center on Obesity
Assessment, Study, and Treatment (COAST) and
a faculty member in the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, notes that stress-activated hormonal
responses both impair decisionmaking and lead to
chronic physiological changes. She told an audience
at a recent TEDx talk, “We have vastly overestimated
our ability to control conscious behavior.” A classic
example: Someone slightly depressed and sleepdeprived has less willpower to avoid grabbing that
doughnut than he might think.
The psychological and metabolic patterns that result from
stress reactions can perpetuate themselves throughout a
lifetime—and, in the case of pregnant women, throughout their unborn children’s lives. “The roots of resiliency
start in utero,” Dr. Epel explains. “Maternal stress and
depression can have long-term metabolic and neural effects on offspring, all the way to adult life.”
These findings shape Dr. Epel’s current research on
low-income mothers, who have high levels of stress,
particularly food insecurity. People living with food insecurity often have to skip or skimp on meals, but are also
prone to binge eating and obesity. Early findings suggest that, when these women are able to reduce stress,
they gain less weight, and it looks as if their babies show
more stress resiliency. “We can’t easily help them with
the food insecurity,” Dr. Epel says, “but we can help
these mothers be less self-critical, feel less stress, and
make healthier, more creative food choices.”
In another current project, Dr. Epel is studying parents
of autistic children. “[Lack of] sleep is a common problem for parents of children with autism,” she observes,
as is divorce. This work is leading to a new mindfulness-based program to reduce stress for the parents
and for their children, autistic and otherwise. “These
parents, sadly, are on a path of accelerated aging,” Dr.
Epel says. “We can’t change their caregiving situations,
but we can change the caregiver, the way they experience life and react to things that happen.”
Science, she observes, is developing a “humbling” new
understanding of the mind. “Cognitive neuroscience is
revealing that, although our experience feels seamless—
we think we see and understand everything—we actually have very limited perceptual abilities. We behave
in a certain way that we’re not aware of and make up
stories later, post hoc, to explain what we did. Given our
limited ability to control our behavior, we need to shape
our environment to support us better”—from resisting
multitasking to restricting impulsive consumption.
In the face of various controversies about efforts to regulate access to unhealthy behaviors, it is clear that, culturally, Americans still prize the individual right to make
bad choices. “It’s a principle that makes sense theoretically,” Dr. Epel says, “but the data and the obesity epidemic point to the failure of personal responsibility. We
have to realize that people will still make bad choices
because they’re not in full conscious control of their
behavior. Stress makes any of us more impulsive. We
need more health and food policy based on a deeper
understanding of the psychology of human behavior.”
Photo: Susan Merrell
She is encouraged that the public and business leaders
are increasingly interested in improving wellness. “I
live near Silicon Valley,” she says, “and the question
for that culture is how to be more creative and innovative, and have greater wellbeing.” Though such
initiatives as the recent Wisdom 2.0 conferences, she
says, “There’s a movement starting in the heart of
the Valley to bring more compassion and mindfulness
to work. The motivation might start with improving business profits, but in the process they create a
healthier, more compassionate culture.”
While technology may improve culture, Dr. Epel notes,
it can also create cognitive load by multitasking and reduce important social interactions and relationships.
“We’re sickened by stress, and the backlash is good.
Our society is going to rediscover the power of the
very basics—social connection and self-knowledge—
in helping people manage stress and achieve optimal
performance. We are realizing how stress affects us
in the workplace, making us sleep-deprived, with hostile edges and narrow thinking. We need to promote
cultural change toward connection and compassion.”
Look for Dr. Epel’s work on TED at http://blog.tedmed.
com/?p=2130 and http://youtu.be/UhfXa6IaY5U .
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“Always About Opportunity”
Continued from page 1
“We talk a lot these days about STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math,” he adds. “Those with
STEM educations are going to contribute much to the
national defense, science and math, and related businesses. In this connected world we live in, those who
do better in education are going to be the leaders, and
they’re going to be more prosperous. If we fall behind
there, we’re going to fall behind in other ways.”
Governor Kean is well acquainted with some disconnects between policymakers and educators. One of
these is the cost of college quality versus the need
for college access. At a national summit last year, he
served on a panel with another former governor and
two university presidents. The panelists reached an
impasse, with the governors calling for affordability
and the presidents arguing that the cost of sustaining
quality keeps rising.
“I certainly understand when college presidents emphasize quality at their institutions,” he says. “But the
present model is unsustainable. You cannot charge
students forty or fifty thousand dollars a year, not
counting living expenses, to get a higher education.
Most families simply can’t afford it. Most institutions
don’t have the money to subsidize everybody. So to
say that we have to have everybody get a higher education and then not to do anything about cost, and
therefore access, makes no sense. Government has
been subsidizing this for years, but they’re running
out of the ability to do that. College costs are outstripping everything else. We’re not going to succeed
as a country if we don’t do better.”
This issue of college access, Governor Kean notes, requires much greater focus from colleges and universi-
ties. “Leaders of higher education have two choices,”
he says. “One is to get together and see the best possible way to keep quality but lower cost and increase
access. That they can do cooperatively, and a number
of people and institutions will help them. Or they can
simply let the market work. If they let that happen,
over the next 20 years you will see a number of institutions close their doors. And that again will deny
access to students.” Of the alternatives, he says, “I’d
certainly prefer finding creative solutions.”
Not only must higher education partner more effectively with policymakers, he argues, it must also continue to collaborate actively with K-12 education, and
vice versa. “Once, when I was governor, my commissioner of higher education said that campuses were
having a problem because they had to remediate so
much in early years of college, because high schools
were doing a bad job. And the K-12 commissioner
said, ‘That’s because you’re training lousy teachers.’
Those kinds of arguments back and forth are unproductive. Education is a continuum. Colleges and
schools have to work together more productively. A
lot of that’s happening now, especially with the better
institutions, and that’s positive.”
Given the current state of American education, what
should the nation’s priorities be? “This country has always been about opportunity,” Governor Kean says.
“The priority is to get schools working to create opportunity so that kids will have decent lives. Nothing
is more important.
“Our whole future as a country and a democracy
depends on how well we do in education over the
next fifty to sixty years.”
Mountains of Work
Continued from page 6
Dr. Crawford and her husband, William A. Crawford,
are both Bryn Mawr professors emeriti. Having retired from teaching in 2006, she still serves as mineral
curator for Bryn Mawr. She also works with school
groups and assists undergraduates when needed.
While Dr. Crawford no longer conducts field research, she often gives lectures about geological
features and geological history when traveling. Next
year, she’ll lead a group of Bryn Mawr alumnae/i to
Iceland. “I continue trying to convey to all I meet how
wonderful and complex Earth is and the many ways
it influences our lives and how we influence it. This
should be a part of everyone’s understanding.”
Photo: Courtesy of Maria Luisa Crawford
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Writing the Future
Continued from page 1
Yet there is another truth as well. Last year was the
hottest ever recorded in the U.S. Droughts afflicted
around 60% of U.S. counties, including the breadbasket states of the Midwest and the Great Plains.
In October, an extraordinary “superstorm” smashed
into the Atlantic coastline around New Jersey, causing losses of around $60 billion. Climate problems—
floods, droughts, heat waves, extreme storms,
massive forest fires, and more—also ravaged many
other parts of the world in 2012.
These environmental disasters are occurring with
rising frequency, as they are partly caused by human
actions, such as deforestation, coastal erosion, massive pollution, and, of course, the greenhouse-gas
emissions that are changing the world’s climate and
acidifying the oceans. What is new is that scourges like
climate change—until recently described as a future
threat—are now clear and present dangers. Scientists
have even given a name to our era, the Anthropocene,
in which humanity (“anthropos” in Greek) is having a
large-scale impact on the planet’s ecosystems.
Herein lies our great challenge—the one that will determine whether we follow the path of prosperity or
ruin. If the world economy’s current growth patterns
continue, we face ecological disaster. If the world
economy embraces a new growth pattern—one that
harnesses advanced technologies like smart phones,
broadband, precision agriculture, and solar power—
we can spread prosperity while saving the planet.
So, what will it take to write the happy ending? First,
we must recognize that we, as a global society, have
a choice to make. On our current trajectory, shortterm prosperity is coming at the cost of too many
future crises.
Second, we must recognize the powerful new tools
and technologies that we have at hand. Using advanced
information technologies—computers, satellite mapping, image processing, expert systems, and more—
we now have the means to grow more food with less
environmental damage; improve public health for rich
and poor alike; distribute more electricity with lower
greenhouse-gas emissions; and make our cities more
livable and healthier, even as urbanization raises their
populations by billions in the coming decades.
Third, we should set bold goals for the years ahead—
to spread prosperity and improve public health while
saving the planet. Sustainable development will be our
generation’s test, encouraging us to use our creativity
and human values to establish a path of sustainable
well-being on our crowded and endangered planet.
I am proud and honored that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked me to help
mobilize the world’s expertise as we seek to achieve
that goal. The greatest talents in our societies—in universities, businesses, NGOs, and especially among the
world’s young people—are ready to take on our greatest challenges, and are joining the U.N.’s new Sustainable Development Solutions Network. In the months
and years ahead, these leaders will share their visions
of a prosperous and sustainable global society.
The Woodrow Wilson Awards Dinner
honoring Governor Kean and Dr. Sachs
will be held at the Harvard Club in
mid-June 2013. For more information,
email [email protected] or call
609-452-7007 x. 151.
A longer version of this essay originally appeared on Project Syndicate on January 24, 2013.
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BOOK SPOTLIGHT
King of Infinite Space: Euclid and
His Elements
David Berlinski WF ’63
Geometry defines the world
around us, helping us make
sense of everything from architecture to military science to
fashion. And for over two thousand years, geometry has been
equated with Euclid’s Elements,
arguably the most influential
book in the history of mathematics. In The King of Infinite
Photo and summary
Space, renowned mathematics
© Basic Books.
writer David Berlinski provides
a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his
staggering achievements. Dr. Berlinski shows that, for
centuries, scientists and thinkers from Copernicus to
Newton to Einstein have relied on Euclid’s axiomatic system, a method of proof still taught in classrooms around
the world. Euclid’s use of elemental logic—and the mathematical statements he and others built from it—have
dramatically expanded the frontiers of human knowledge.
David Berlinski holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has taught mathematics and philosophy at
universities in the United States and France. The bestselling author of A Tour of the Calculus and Newton’s
Gift, as well as many other books, he lives in Paris.
Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge,
Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed,
and 362 Other Inventions and
Discoveries That Made Our World
Randy Alfred WF ’67, editor
365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied
for a patent on his cube (1975).
On the next day, 17 years
earlier, the first U.S. Satellite
passed through the Van Allen
radiation belt. On March 17,
the airplane “black box” made
its maiden voyage (1953). And
what about today? Every day
of the year has a rich scientific
Photo and summary
and technological heritage just
© Little, Brown.
waiting to be uncovered, and
Wired’s top-flight science-trivia book Mad Science collects them chronologically, from New Year’s Day to
year’s end, showing just how entertaining, wonderful,
bizarre, and relevant science can be.
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In 2010, Wired’s popular “This Day in Tech” blog
peaked with more than 700,000 page views each
month, and one story in 2008 drew more than a million
unique viewers. This book collects the most intriguing
anecdotes from the blog’s run-one for each day of the
year-and publish them in a package that will instantly
appeal to hardcore techies and curious laypeople alike.
Randy Alfred is Editor of “This Day in Tech.” He
joined Wired.com as a copy editor in 2007. He also
worked as senior news writer at Paul Allen’s Tech TV
cable channel. He lives in San Francisco.
Reasons of Conscience: The
Bioethics Debate in Germany
Stefan Sperling CN ’04
The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that
have pervaded all of German
public life for decades: How
could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans
make sure that it will never
happen again? In Reasons of
Photo and summary
Conscience, Stefan Sperling
© University of
considers the bioethical deChicago Press.
bates surrounding embryonic
stem cell research in Germany at the turn of the
twenty-first century, highlighting how the country’s
ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today.
Dr. Sperling brings the reader unmatched access to
the offices of the German parliament to convey the
role that morality and ethics play in contemporary
Germany. He describes the separate and interactive
workings of the two bodies assigned to shape German
bioethics—the parliamentary Enquiry Commission on
Law and Ethics in Modern Medicine and the executive branch’s National Ethics Council—tracing each
institution’s genesis, projected image, and operations,
and revealing that the content of bioethics cannot be
separated from the workings of these institutions. Dr.
Sperling then focuses his discussion around three core
categories—transparency, conscience, and Germany
itself—arguing that without fully considering these,
we fail to understand German bioethics. He concludes with an assessment of German legislators and
regulators’ attempts to incorporate criteria of ethical
research into the German Stem Cell Law.
Stefan Sperling has taught at Harvard University, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Deep Springs College in
California. He lives in Stanford, California.
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Mary Jo White WF ’70 Appointed SEC Chairman
On April 10, Mary Jo White WF ’70 was sworn in as
the 31st Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Nominated to the position by President
Barack Obama on February 7, Chairman White was
confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 8.
kets,” said Chairman White. “Our markets are the
envy of the world precisely because of the SEC’s
work effectively regulating the markets, requiring
comprehensive disclosure, and vigorously enforcing
the securities laws.”
A former federal prosecutor and securities lawyer,
Chairman White specialized in prosecuting complex
securities and financial institution frauds and international terrorism cases. In her first act as Chairman,
at the first public meeting she led on the day she was
sworn in, the SEC adopted new identity theft rules.
Hear her opening remarks at http://1.usa.gov/16Py840.
Chairman White has won numerous awards in recognition of her work both as a prosecutor and a securities lawyer, among them the George W. Bush Award
for Excellence in Counterterrorism, the Sandra Day
O’Connor Award for Distinction in Public Service,
and the “Women of Power and Influence Award”
given by the National Organization for Women.
Chairman White was also a nominee for TIME’s 2013
list of 100 Most Influential People in the World.
“It is an honor to lead the talented and dedicated
SEC staff on behalf of America’s investors and mar-
Photo: Courtesy of the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission
Sandra M. Faber WF ’66 Awarded National Medal of Science
On February 1, astronomer Sandra M. Faber WF ’66
H was presented with a 2011 National Science Medal
by President Barack Obama. Dr. Faber, University
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was awarded the
medal for her “leadership in numerous path-breaking
studies of extra-galactic astronomy and galaxy formation, and for oversight of the construction of important instruments, including the Keck telescopes.”
She co-discovered the Faber-Jackson relation, which
helps astronomers estimate the distance of galaxies,
and was one of “the Seven Samurai,” a team of scientists who discovered an intergalactic gravitational
anomaly known as the Great Attractor.
“Not only do I like tangible things, big things, impressive things, but I’m also drawn to subjects about
Photo: Ryan K Morris/National Science
& Technology Medals Foundation
which very little is known,” says Dr. Faber in a video
about her work produced for the National Science
& Technology Medals Foundation. Learn more/watch
the video at http://bit.ly/Faber-Natl-Sci-Medal.
AWARDS
Photo:
Frank Wojciechowski
David Botstein WF ’63
was one of the 11 scientists
awarded the first-ever Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences
on February 20. At $3 million,
the Breakthrough Prize is the
largest academic prize to date
for medicine and biology.
A member of the Princeton
University faculty since 2003,
Dr. Botstein is Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Professor of Genomics and molecular biology and director of the LewisSigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Dr. Botstein was
selected for the award based on his extensive work with
the human genome, including mapping disease markers.
Sharon Olds WF ’64 was
awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her
volume Stag’s Leap (Knopf,
2012). The author of twelve
books of poetry, Dr. Olds has
won several major awards
including the National Book
Photo: Catherine Mauger
Critics Circle Award for The
Dead and the Living (1983). Her first book, Satan Says
(1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry
Center Award. Dr. Olds teaches in the Graduate
Creative Writing Program at New York University.
Five Woodrow Wilson
Fellows Named 2013
AAAS Fellows:
Section on Biological
Sciences
Elton T. Young WF ’62 H,
University of Washington
Section on Chemistry
Dennis G. Peters WF ’58,
Indiana University
Section on Information,
Computing & Communication
Justine Cassell SP ’89,
Carnegie Mellon University
Section on Social, Economic
and Political Sciences
Howard E. Aldrich WF
’65 H, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Katherine Bucknell CN ’84—editor, Liberation:
Diaries, Volume Three: 1970-1983 by Christopher
Isherwood (Harper/HarperCollins, 2012)
Cristina Maria Cervone CN ’02—Poetics of the
Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
William H. Chafe WF ’68 DS—Bill and Hillary: The
Politics of the Personal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012)
Michael P. Jeffries MN ’02—Paint the White House
Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in
America (Stanford University Press, 2013)
The Foundation particularly thanks
readers who responded in January
to an electronic survey about the
desirability and use of hard-copy
versus digital newsletters. The results: Like readers of so many publications, respondents appreciated
the ease and “green appeal” of
digital versions, but still considered
hard-copy convenient and thought
it likelier to catch their attention.
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the two formats as we mull over
future issues. Look for our eblasts
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz WF ’60—Two-Part
Inventions (Counterpoint, 2012)
Gary S. Schiff WF ’71 DS—In Search of Polin:
Chasing Jewish Ghosts in Today’s Poland (Peter Lang
Publishing, 2012)
Graeme Starr WF ’68—CARRICK: Principles, Politics
and Policy (Connor Court Publishing, 2012)
Due to space limitations we cannot print the full list
of recent Fellow accomplishments. A more complete
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