Shelley Orgel, M.D. 1928-2018

Donald Ainslie (D. A.) Henderson, MD, MPH (1928–2016) Smallpox Eradication: Leadership and Legacy

It was said in ancient Greece that when Aeschines spoke the crowd uttered, “What a great orator,” but when Demosthenes spoke they shouted, “Let us march!” Donald Ainslie (D. A. since childhood) Henderson became commanding general of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme in October 1966. To many of the more than 150 000 pox-warriors who marched until ...

CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM & GENDER WORK Shelley

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...

Arcetri, 1928 -1932

Early in 1928, a short time after receiving my doctorate at the University of Bologna, I was offered a position of assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Florence. The Institute rose among olive trees, on the hill of Arcetri, a short distance from the villa where Galileo had spent the last years of his life as a political exile. The chair of physics was held by Professor Antoni...

The misunderstood consequences of Shelley v. Kraemer.

Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) was a landmark civil rights ruling, in which the Supreme Court held that private racial covenants could not be enforced by the state to evict black buyers of "restricted" homes. Fair housing scholars have generally dismissed or downplayed the practical effects of Shelley, since other forms of housing discrimination remained very powerful. Using spatial lag models and d...