The BPP group meets weekly at this seminar, named in honor of our colleague and Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson.
"Students in the first-year seminar, named Values in Action, partnered with the Philanthropy Lab, a national philanthropic organization, to present a combined $101,000 in grant funding to a variety of organizations Monday.
The Sawyer Seminar is named for John E. Sawyer, a former president of Williams College who also served as the Mellon Foundation's third president.
The CROCCO Seminar is named for Luigi Crocco (1906-1986), a Princeton professor who was among the first in his generation to seriously devote efforts on numerical techniques for solving practical and complex fluid flows.
The seminars, held in Parliament Hall — named because the Scottish Parliament met there during the 17th-century plague — were standing-room only, suggesting that Ms. Richardson was not alone in wanting more than ceremony.
Zimmer sounds less like a grieving father than like a canny deconstructionist leading a graduate seminar: two dead sons, one named Tad and the other Todd!
Their method was to hold a semi serious, semi-mock seminar entitled the Treplev Readings, named after the character in "The Seagull" who commits suicide; their point was that if Chekhov was once such a dismal failure, then they had every reason to be optimistic about the future.
Sidlin founded the Defiant Requiem Foundation, which sponsors the live performances of the concert drama, and the Rafael Schachter Institute for Arts and Humanities, a summer program of seminars and workshops at Terezin, named for the man who organized and conducted all the Verdi "Requiem" performances at the camp.
The leader of the seminar was a Department of Environmental Protection project manager named Rick Gunthorpe, a stocky, freckled man in brown corduroys and a giant sweater.
Mr. Blair and his father, also named Leon, attended a seminar conducted by Mr. Brown, who explained how compound interest, over time, makes money grow almost magically.
The previous week, Dr. Fontana had attended a fund-raising golf outing and taken part in a seminar on child protection at the Greenwich Village center named in his honor.
