http://www.mellon.org daily 1 2006-07-17T23:09:57Z http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/announcements-1/mellonshortannouncement.2006-08-21.8713152370 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today the appointment of Lawrence R. Ricciardi to its Board of Trustees. Mr. Ricciardi is recently retired from IBM, where he served, variously, as senior vice president and senior advisor to IBM’s chairman, general counsel, and chief financial officer. Before joining IBM in 1995, Mr. Ricciardi was a senior executive at RJR Nabisco and American Express. Prior to joining American Express, he served as counsel to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mr. Ricciardi serves on the boards of directors of Reader’s Digest and Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, and is senior advisor to the law firm of Jones Day and to Lazard Freres & Co. Mr. Ricciardi studied at Fordham University and Columbia University, and was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Law at the University of Rome, Italy. No publisher admin 2007-01-31T20:21:59Z Short Announcement http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/announcements-1/mellon-awards-to-the-university-of-chicago-and-bryn-mawr-college-in-honor-of-hanna-gray The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today two special grants totaling $4,500,000 in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray, who has just retired as chairman of its Board of Trustees after having served as a Board member for 23 years. The two grants will establish endowments in Mrs. Gray’s honor; one at the University of Chicago and the other at Bryn Mawr College. No publisher admin 2007-01-31T20:21:58Z announcement http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/announcements-1/mellonshortannouncement.2006-08-21.6583468085 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today the appointment of Drew Gilpin Faust to its Board of Trustees. Ms. Faust is the Founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University) and a leading historian of the Civil War and the American South. She studied at Bryn Mawr College (BA, 1968) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1975). Prior to joining the Institute in January, 2001, Ms. Faust was Annenberg Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. No publisher admin 2007-01-31T20:21:59Z Short Announcement http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/announcements-1/bowen-and-rudenstine-article-appears-in-chronicle-of-higher-education "Race-Sensitive Admissions: Back to Basics," an article by William G. Bowen, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Neil L. Rudenstine, chairman of ARTstor, appears in the February 7 issue of The Chronicle Review, the magazine of The Chronicle of Higher Education. No publisher admin 2007-01-31T20:21:59Z announcement