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President Barack Obama awarded two alumni the National Humanities Medal July 10. Former Princeton president William G. Bowen *58 was cited for his contributions to economics and his “probing research on higher education in America.” Sports writer Frank Deford ’61 was honored for “reveal[ing] the humanity woven into the games we love.” Princeton professor of history emerita Natalie Zemon Davis received the medal for her “exacting eloquence in bringing the past into focus.”
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Obama nominated Crystal Nix-Hines ’85, an attorney in Los Angeles, as the U.S. Permanent Representative to UNESCO, with the rank of ambassador, based in Paris.
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Two alumni are among the winners of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards: Deford will receive a lifetime-achievement award for literary sports writing, and Molly Weigel *96 was named in the poetry-in-translation category for The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik. Daniel Mendelsohn *94 was a runner-up for his book of essays Waiting for the Barbarians.