When Barack Obama became the “first Black President” of the United States in 2008, researchers examined how his election impacted Americans’ views of racial progress. When he was reelected in 2012, the minority status of the president had become less novel. In the present study, we investigated whether perceptions concerning racial progress varied: (1) before and after President Obama’s reelect...

Brenda J. Andrews,* Mark Johnston, R. Scott Hawley, Paul W. Sternberg, Phillip Hieter,** and Tim Schedl, *Editor-in-Chief, G3: Genes j Genomes j Genetics; †Editor-in-Chief, GENETICS; ‡President of the Genetics Society of America, 2010; §President of the Genetics Society of America, 2011, **President of the Genetics Society of America, 2012, and ††Chair, Publications Committee of the Genetics So...

Shown a t the annual Representat ives Dinner of the Westchester chapter , C iv i l Serv ice Employees Associat ion, are , from left: G a b r i e l J . C o r a b e e , Westchester chapter president; R ichard P. Schultz, past president of the W e s t c h e s t e r chapter ; Joseph F. Feily, president of the C iv i l Serv ic Employees Assoc iat ion; ond M a r g a r e t W . Trout, past president of...

William G. Bowen is President Emeritus of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former president of Princeton University and founding chairman of ITHAKA.1 Over his long career he has enriched academic (and general) community with contributions on topics such as class inequalities in higher education, college sports at all levels, and completion rates in higher education. He also gave a very valuable...

The Office of Inspector Generals completed its first session as well in December. Afghanistan’s President Karzai’s security detail will also be returning this spring for another week of leadership training through the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI). Neil Kerwin was inaugurated as AU’s 14 president on February 8, after spending the past two years as acting presid...

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Although Downar and colleagues present a very detailed examination of many of the issues involved in our growing national examination of how Canadians expect to manage their care at the end-oflife, the authors unfortunately get the cart well before the horse by focusing solely on physician-assisted death. Addressing the dire need for improved access to palliative care services, for which the la...

The vital principle of “separation of church and state” grew out of the experience of early American Quakers and other minority religious groups. As Quakers in the modern world we are troubled that your administration appears ready to repudiate this historical principle through proposals known under the names "Charitable Choice" and "Faith-Based Initiative." We believe these measures will work ...