Mortimer Mishkin '46 and Marye Ann Fox, who received her Ph.D in Chemistry from the College, were two of 10 researchers awarded the National Medal of Science, President Barack Obama announced Friday. These awards are "the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors," according to a White House press release. Mishkin is a senior investigator of neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health, and Fox is a professor of chemistry and chancellor of the University of California at San Diego. The honorees will receive their awards at a White House ceremony later this year, according to the press release.
A recent study on freshman roommate assignments at Berea College in Kentucky reports that the probability that randomly assigned roommates will become friends is independent of the students' race, according to The Washington Post. The study showed that students were just as likely to report that they had become friends with their roommate regardless of whether their roommate was of the same race. The study, published in the October issue of the Journal of Labor Economics, also concluded that white students who are paired with black roommates are likely to have more interracial friendships throughout college. By the third year, white students assigned to black roommates their first year at Berea said that 17 percent of their friends were black, while white students assigned to white roommates their first year said only 5 percent of their friends were black, according to the study.
The College Sports Project released a set of data analyzing the academic performance of athletes and non-athletes at more than 80 NCAA Division III colleges and universities, Inside Higher Ed reported. The collected data showed that female athletes, both recruited and non-recruited, had on average higher GPAs than their male counterparts. The data also showed that walk-on athletes, both male and female, had, on average, higher grade point averages than their recruited counterparts, according to the analysis report on the College Sports Project website. The College Sports Project, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is aimed at encouraging a balance between athletics and academics among student-athletes, according to its website.
