Economist Glaeser named Sloan Fellow

Edward Glaeser, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, has been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship.

Sloan Fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, and economics.

The Lonely Crowd named top-seller

The journal Contemporary Sociology has named the best-selling sociology book ever. And the winner is: The Lonely Crowd (Yale University Press) by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney, which the journal says has sold some 1.4 million copies since it was published in 1950. Glazer is professor of education and social structure emeritus at the Education School, and Riesman is Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus.

Feminist panel discussion features student, lecturer

Two members of the Harvard community will participate in "Generations of Feminism: A Panel Discussion," to be held on Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at M.I.T., Room 10-250.

They are: Lamelle Rawlins '99, the first woman to serve as president of the Undergraduate Council, who is active on issues of campus safety, date rape education, and increasing women and minority faculty; and Linda C. Powell, lecturer on education at the Graduate School of Education, whose writing has appeared in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology.

The panel will be moderated by Evelynn Hammonds, associate professor of the history of science at M.I.T., and will also include Katha Pollitt, a columnist for The Nation whose most recent book is Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism; and members of the M.I.T. student body.

The panel will address a range of issues, including challenges to feminism, media images and stereotypes of feminists, and coalition building. The event is free and open to the public.