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Cornell Chronicle
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M.H. “Mike” Abrams, interpretation influential fictitious critic gain beloved Philanthropist English academician who emended the distinguished reference “The Norton Anthology of Nation Literature” on the side of four decades, died Apr 21 finish equal Kendal on the way out Ithaca. Type was 102.
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M. H. Abrams papers, 1912-2015.
Collection Number: 14-12-4080
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Series I. Class Materials
Subseries I a. General Course Material
English Tutorial Board
English Tutorial Board bibliography
Suggested Thesis Subjects
Discussion Group: Problems in Language
Grad student directories
Written PhD examinations
Mimeograph stencils
Subseries I b. Honors Seminars
English 403: Approaches to Literature
English 403: Approaches to Literature reading notes
English 403: Approaches to Literature
English 404: Approaches to Poetry
English 390: Convention and Individual Talent
English 390: Approaches to Poetry meetings of the course
English 390: The Criticism of Lyric Poetry
English 492: Approaches to Literature
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University People
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Cherry Murray
Innovation Honorand
Cherry Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. President Barack Obama made the announcement on October 3. For details, see harvardmag.com/murray-14.
Humanities Honorands
Alumni recognized with the National Humanities Medal, conferred in July, include M.H. Abrams ’34, Ph.D. ’40, Cornell’s Class of 1916 professor emeritus, editor of the original Norton Anthology of English Literature; David Brion Davis, Ph.D. ’56, Yale’s Sterling Professor emeritus of American history, the leading historian of slavery; and Anne Firor Scott, Ph.D. ’58, Duke’s Boyd professor of history emerita, a pioneering historian of women and the South.
Seeding Scientists
Two of the three winners of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists are Harvard faculty members: Rachel Wilson, professor of neurobiology at the Medical School, who studies how brain circuitry works; and Adam E. Cohen, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, who develops tools to probe molecular and cellular functions (see “Light-Up Neurons,” March-April 2012, page 10). Each receives a $250,000 unrestricted grant