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FRANK DEFORD ’61, who in 2012 won a National Humanities Medal for changing how we think about sports, has delivered his final NPR commentary — for a total of 1,656 during his 37 years on the job. You can read his farewell here: http://n.pr/2pd3MHB.

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ALE HAKALA ’03 was named in January by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor the government bestows on scientists in the early stages of their careers. Hakala is a Pittsburgh-based geochemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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BARBARA KRAUTHAMER *00 was named dean of the Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Krauthamer is an associate professor of history and is widely considered a leading historian of African American slavery and emancipation. She has been on the UMass Amherst faculty since 2008.