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On Campus Faculty Research A recent study by economics professors Nicola Persico and Andrew Postlewaite, and graduate student Dan Silverman indicates that a boys height at age 16 is a significant determinant of his future salary. The study of more than 2,000 men in the U.S. workforce found that taller teens later earned as much as 15 percent more than shorter teens, regardless of their heights as adults. Faculty Appointments Thomas Childers, the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; Ruth Schwartz Cowan, the Janice and Julian Bers Professor in the History and Sociology of Science; Michael Eric Dyson, the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and African-American Studies; Ania Loomba, the Catherine Bryson Professor; Michael Meister, the W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies; Economics professor Andrew Postlewaite, the Harry P. Kamen Professor; Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor David Stern, the Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature; Economics professor Kenneth Wolpin, the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences. Board of
Overseers Appointments Steven F. Goldstone, Esq., C67, retired chairman, Nabisco Group Holdings; William D. Novelli, C63, ASC64, executive director, AARP; Steven Sokolow, C77, head of litigation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and the newly elected president of the College Alumni Society. |
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