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Biographies About the Authors William G. Bowen, President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 1988, was President of Princeton University from 1972-1988, where he also served as Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. A graduate of Denison University (AB 1955) and Princeton University (PhD 1958), he joined the Princeton faculty in 1958 (specializing in labor economics) and served as Provost there from 1967-72. Bowen joined the Foundation in 1988 and his tenure at Mellon has been marked by increases in the scale of the Foundation's activities, with annual appropriations now exceeding $180 million. To ensure that Mellon's grant-making activities would be better informed and more effective while also following his interest in studying questions central to higher education and philanthropy, he created an in-house research program to investigate doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries, and charitable nonprofits. Bowen's special interest in the application of information technology to scholarship has led to a range of initiatives including the Foundation-sponsored creation of JSTOR (a searchable electronic archive of the full runs of core journals in many fields), the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, ARTstor (a repository of high-quality digitized works of art and related materials for teaching and research), and Ithaka (a new organization launched to help accelerate the adoption of productive and efficient uses of information technology for the benefit of the worldwide higher education community). Bowen is the author or co-author of 18 books, including most recently The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values (2001) with James Shulman, and the Grawemeyer Award-winning The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (1998) with Derek Bok. Bowen is chairman of the board of Ithaka Harbors, Inc. He serves on the boards of JSTOR, American Express; Merck & Co, Inc.; and the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development [Internet2]. He also serves on the Boards of Overseers of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund. Sarah A. Levin graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. cum laude in mathematics in 2000. At Harvard, she was co-captain of the varsity sailing team and an All-American. After completing her undergraduate work, she worked for two years as a research associate at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In addition to her work on RECLAIMING THE GAME, she contributed to projects on the digitalization of art and the effect of commercialization and technological change on the university. She also helped manage grants for research on the economics of higher education. In the fall of 2002, Sarah entered a doctoral program in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. File created: 1/29/2008 | |
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