Deaths

Eugene Shea ’34 • Oct. 3, 2017 Gardner Chapin Cook ’41 • Oct. 25, 2013 Merle Lester Perkins ’41 • April 16, 2017 John Lawler Brooks ’42 • Aug. 20, 2017 Warren Emil Carlson ’42 • May 23,…

All the Right Moves

The career path of Kery Davis ’79 led from law school to Broadway to HBO Boxing. Now, as athletic director at Howard University, he hopes to inject a dose of Ivy League into “The Mecca.”

Subject Matter

In What Are the Arts and Sciences? 27 faculty members explain their disciplines in essays edited by math professor Dan Rockmore. Here are some nuggets from the book, which he calls “a brief tour…

New Energy

Elizabeth Wilson takes the helm of the new Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society.