Newsmakers
Wilson’s famed novel is re-released
“The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” the novel by Sloan Wilson ’42 that seemed to capture the mood of a generation when it was first published in 1955, is being re-released on Oct. 24 by Four Walls Eight Windows Press. The reprint will include an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.
Institute of Medicine elects professors
Four Harvard professors recently joined 61 other candidates in being elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The new members include Stanley J. Korsmeyer, Sidney Farber Professor of Pathology and professor of medicine; Stephen W. Lagakos, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the Department of Biostatistics; Deborah Prothrow-Stith, professor of public health practice and associate dean for faculty development (School for Public Health); and Nancy J. Tarbell, professor of radiation oncology.
– Compiled by Andrew Brooks