Notes

Joan A. Steitz ’63 (Antioch College, BA) received the 2018 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. The award honors Steitz “for four decades of leadership in biomedical science, including her discoveries in RNA biology and her service as a mentor to women in science.” The Lasker is…

Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60 (Antioch College, BA) introduced a bill (the Washington, D.C. Admission Act H.R. 51) in January, 2019 to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. Norton, a democratic congresswoman (D-DC), received a special statement of support from Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in addition to a record of 155 original…