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Being one of the nation’s top nuclear physicists has many perks; for D. Allan Bromley, it meant a lightning-quick U.S. citizenship. The native Canadian and Sterling Professor of the Sciences at Yale, who died on February 10 at the age of 78, had been invited by the federal government to the Weapons Flat in Nevada in 1970. “I had been shown the deepest, darkest secret known in the United States … and just about the time it was all finished, someone said, ‘Oh my God, Bromley is not a citizen,’” he recalled in a 1992 interview with the Toronto Star. A judge was hurriedly dispatched to swear him in. Bromley would serve his adopted country as science and technology advisor for President George H. W. Bush '48 from 1989 to 1993, where he pushed for government partnerships with high-tech industries to keep the United States at the forefront of the late 1980s manufacturing race. Before and after his tenure in Washington, however, Bromley helped Yale take significant steps toward becoming a leader in the sciences. In 1963, he founded the A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory and served as its director until 1989. In 1994, he was named dean of engineering, a post he held until 2000. In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Science—the nation’s highest scientific honor—for his contributions to physics. “Allan Bromley was sometimes called a force of nature for the strength of his convictions and ideas and his unique ability to articulate them,” says current dean of engineering Paul Fleury. “Yale and the whole scientific community have lost a giant.” Sonja Buckley, a Yale virologist and investigator who studied the African Lassa virus, died on February 2 in Baltimore after a series of strokes. She was 86. Buckley first encountered the virus in 1969, after two missionary nurses in the Nigerian village of Lassa succumbed to it. She worked with fellow Yale virologists Wilbur Downs and Jordi Casals-Ariet to identify and isolate the virus and to extract antibodies from the blood of survivors. Born and educated in Zurich, Buckley came to the United States in the 1940s and was on the Yale faculty from 1965 to 1994. Robert Baker, an organist and founder of Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, died in his Hamden home on January 24. He was 88 years old. Baker, a native of Illinois, arrived at Yale in 1973 from New York’s Union Theological School of Sacred Music, where he had served as director until lack of funding forced the school to close. Baker brought three of his colleagues to Yale, where he created a program that lets aspiring church musicians combine studies at the Divinity School and the School of Music. Baker served as its director until 1976 and was on the Yale faculty until 1987.
Honored Citing his courage to extend the tradition of the prophetic voice, the Yale University Library has awarded Jay Wright its Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, making him the first African American to receive the prestigious honor. Wright will receive $75,000 and join a roster of past winners that includes Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, and Robert Frost. Established in 1948 by Paul Mellon '29, the Bollingen Prize recognizes an American poet every two years for the best book published during that period or for lifetime achievement. Yale students regularly do well in the Atlantic Monthly’s annual student writing contest, but this was a banner year. Five Elis were cited in the contest—more honorees than any other college had. Alexander Nemser '06 won first prize in poetry, Jeremy Kutner '06 won first prize in nonfiction, Kanishk Tharoor '06 won third prize in fiction, Rebecca Sanborn '06MES and Sarah Stillman '06 won honorable mentions in nonfiction, and Reese Kwon '05 won honorable mention in fiction.
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Jonathan Holloway '95 PhD, a professor of African American studies, American studies, and history, will serve as the next master of Calhoun College. Holloway, who is currently finishing a year away as a fellow at Stanford, has spent his career writing about post-emancipation American history. He will succeed William Sledge, who has been master of Calhoun for ten years. Holloway’s wife, Aisling Colon—a former singer, actor, model, and event planner at the software company Oracle—will be associate master. Martin Jean, professor of organ at the School of Music, is the new director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He succeeds Margot Fassler, who is returning to teaching. As a concert artist, Jean has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is known for his broad repertoire. Winner of the first prize at both the International Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986 and at the 1992 National Young Artists' Competition in Organ Performance, Jean concluded a cycle of the complete organ works of Bach in 2001.
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