True Maroons: Ana Marie Cox, Frances Dolan, Ray Cullom, Philip Verveer, and Jonathan M. Chase

100 DAYS IN ~200 WORDS
“God Loves Obama” (The Daily Beast blog, Apr. 29, 2009)
Ana Marie Cox, AB’94, recaps the first 100 days of the Obama administration.

EVIDENCE EVALUATION
“Guggenheims Awarded to Profs” (UC Davis News Office, Apr. 21, 2009)
With the Guggenheim Fellowship that Frances Dolan, PhD’88, won earlier this month, she plans to spend a year writing a book about the nature of historical evidence and how it should be evaluated.

RELOCATE STAGE RIGHT
“Ray Cullom Named New Director at Long Wharf” (Hartford Courant, Apr. 27, 2009)
As the new managing director of New Haven’s (CT) Long Wharf Theatre, Ray Cullom, AB’88, plans to work with local officials and developers to oversee the theater’s move downtown.

COMMUNICATIONS REGULATOR
“Verveer May Fill State Dept Telecom Slot” (Lost in Transition blog, National Journal, Apr. 23, 2009)
Philip Verveer, JD’69, is expected to become the State Department’s next U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy.

ECOLOGIST’S COMMUNITY CALLING
“Chase Makes Tyson Research Center a Regional Hub” (Record, Washington University in St. Louis News Office, Apr. 23, 2009)
“We try to understand what the processes are that create variation,” says Jonathan M. Chase, PhD’88. “In Missouri, we’re right in the middle of an ecological zone where prairies, forests, savannas, streams, natural wetlands and ponds come together.”

April 30, 2009

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