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>>> Stephen Nichols ’58, a for- mer French and humanities professor at Johns Hopkins, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexan- der von Humboldt Foundation for his work as a specialist in medieval literature, art and his- tory. The award will support his residence at the Free University Berlin next year, where he will study medieval manu- scripts there and throughout Germany and complete several books.

>>> Joel Feldman ’70, M.D., has been named the president of St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital. A vascular surgeon, Feldman has served as the hospital’s chief of surgery and regional chief medical officer (CMO), where he worked with other re- gional CMOs to collaborate on initiatives for the statewide health system.

>>> Andrew Cassel ’72 has been selected to help start a business journalism program while serving as a visiting professor at Penn State. Cassel, who serves as an editor for a website focused on macroeconomic data and analysis for Moody’s Analytics, worked as columnist, business editor and reporter for the Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1984 to 2007.

>>> Treffle LaFleche ’77 has been inducted into the New England Design Hall of Fame for his residential designs as a cofounder and partner at Cambridge, Massachusetts- based LDa-Architects. His work has includ- ed energy-efficient affordable-housing units and a camp of off-the-grid cabins for the Appalachian Mountain Club.

>>> Melissa Cook ’82, founder and managing director of in- vestment research firm Afri- can Sunrise Partners, has been named to the President’s Ad- visory Council on Doing Busi- ness in Africa. She will advise the president on strengthen- ing commercial engagement between the United States and Africa.

>>> Nancy Pease ’82 has been inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. The “queen of Alaska trail running,” according to the Alaska Dispatch News, Pease set records at several marathon races across the state in the 1990s, including a record 50:30 at Mount Marathon, Alaska’s most famous 3-mile race.

>>> Susan Finegan ’85, a member of the Bos- ton-based litigation section of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, has been elected chair of the Massachusetts Com- mission on Judicial Conduct, responsible for hearing complaints of judge misconduct.