Anne Fadiman

Type: Person

Name: Anne Fadiman

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

27 bits of wisdom from commencement addresses

7 surprising uses for tequila 1. Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist): Mount Holyoke College, MA"I need the rest of you to help me fix the world. The rest of the world is getting stupider."2. Adam Savage (host of Mythbusters): Sarah Lawrence College, ... [Published The Week Magazine - May 08 2013]

Entities: Aaron Sorkin, Anne Fadiman, Bill Strickland

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Oregon State University

The Lectern (April 29)

“Occupy: Visualizing a Grass-Roots Movement in the 21st Century,” 4 p.m., Autzen House, 811 S.W. Jefferson Ave., Corvallis. An Oregon State University Center for the Humanities lecture by Andrea Marks and Nancy Froehlich, faculty members in the OSU School ... [Published Corvallis Gazette-Times - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Oregon State University, LaSells Stewart Center, Veterans For Peace, Anne Fadiman, Linus Pauling

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Furthering culture, medicine

In the fall of 1982, two natives of Laos rushed their seizing infant daughter to an emergency room in Merced, Calif. Unable to speak English and unwilling to renounce religious beliefs, the parents’ resistance to treatments suggested by American doctors ... [Published Daily Barometer Online - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Anne Fadiman, Epilepsy, LaSells Stewart Center, Spam

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Inaugural Marina Keegan playwriting award bestowed

In a Friday evening ceremony held in the Saybrook College library, Nicole Davis ’13 was awarded the inaugural Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting.The award was established in memory of Marina Keegan ’12, the prolific playwright who authored ... [Published Yale Daily News - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Anne Fadiman, Nicole Davis, Donald Margulies, Car Accidents, Memory