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Michael Sherraden’s book Assets and the Poor broke new ground on social policy in 1991. In the book, Sherraden, PhD, of the Brown School proposed establishing individual savings accounts for the poor — Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). Since he first proposed IDAs, they have been adopted in federal legislation and in more than 40 states.
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Scientists have uncovered a critical genetic mutation in some patients with myelodysplastic syndromes — a group of blood cancers that can progress to a fatal form of leukemia. The research team at the School of Medicine also found evidence that patients with the mutation are more likely to develop acute leukemia.
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Seethu Seetharaman, PhD, recently was installed as the W. Patrick McGinnis Professor of Marketing in the Olin Business School. The ceremony, held Oct. 26 in the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center, included welcoming remarks by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and an address by Seetharaman.
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Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, has received a $1,380,000 grant from NASA to study presolar grains in a sample of the Murchison meteorite. Presolar grains are tiny bits of stars — stardust — that were born and died billions of years ago, before the formation of the solar system.
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Faculty Fellows on the South 40 recently hosted holiday parties for their student neighbors. Freshman Matt Burkhardt (left) visits with Ian MacMullen, PhD, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences. MacMullen and his wife, Lola Fayanju, MD, research fellow in the Department of Surgery, co-hosted the party in their Gregg House residence.
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