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DANIELLE ALLEN ’93 and creative-writing professor CHANG-RAE LEE have won the Heartland Prize — Allen for nonfiction, Lee for fiction — from The Chicago Tribune. Allen’s book is Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality; Lee’s is the novel On Such a Full Sea.

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LAURA HAYES HOLGATE ’87 has been nominated to be the U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Holgate is senior director for WMD-terrorism and threat reduction at the National Security Council.

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UCLA professor of human genetics and biological chemistry LEONID KRUGLYAK ’87 has received the Curt Stern Award for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics.

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RENNIE MCQUILKIN ’58 was named poet laureate of Connecticut. He is the publisher and editor of Antrim House Books and the author of several books of poetry.