Summer program for writing dissertations
The Graduate School has received a grant of $350,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a three-year pilot project called the “Writing-in-residence Dissertation Working Group.” Inspired by the success of “dissertation boot camps” (all-day writing sessions with breaks for food and physical exercise), the new program will provide a setting and structure for graduate students in the humanities to work on their dissertations during the summer months. Each year, 15 students and two faculty mentors will be chosen for the ten-week program. The initiative aims to teach sustainable scholarly work habits, provide social motivation and feedback, and encourage collaborative efforts—increasingly important for professional advancement in the humanities.
Alumna to head UC-Berkeley
Carol T. Christ ’70PhD (English), executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Berkeley, will become the school’s chancellor on July 1. She is the first woman to hold that position. From 2002 to 2012, Christ was president of Smith College in Massachusetts. Throughout most of her administrative career, she has continued to teach and pursue research. The Graduate School awarded her its highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, in 2007.
Alumnus directs national lab
Stuart Henderson ’91PhD (physics) became director of the US Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia, on April 3. Henderson manages all of the lab’s scientific initiatives and activities, including strategic and long-range planning processes. Specializing in nuclear physics, JLab has a staff of 700 and an annual budget of $150 million. Its physicists probe the structure of protons, neutrons, and small nuclei. The lab is currently completing a $338 million upgrade to the accelerator that doubles its energy to 12 giga-electron volts.
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