Yale provost Peter Salovey, '80, MA '80, is the new president of Yale, succeeding Richard C. Levin, '68, who retired. . . . Newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives include Joaquín Castro, '96, of Texas, and Joe Kennedy, '03, of Massachusetts. . . . Sopranos creator David Chase, MA '71, made his feature film directorial debut with Not Fade Away, about a '60s garage band. . . . Stegner fellow Anthony Marra won a $50,000 Whiting Writers Award for an emerging novelist. . . . Night of the Republic, by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Alan Shapiro, a '75-76 Stegner fellow, was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. . . . Photographer and Bard College professor An-My Lê, '81, MS '85, (above) won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work documenting military operations.
Photo: Courtesy John D. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
