Dan Hogan received the Hope in Action Award from the Alzheimer’s Association Massachusetts/ New Hampshire Charter, recognizing him for his advocacy work on behalf of people impacted by Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. A long-time member of the Club Passim staff, Hogan has served the club as both an executive direction and senior advisor. He has been living with Alzheimer’s, Lewy body disease and cerebrovascular disease since 2023, and has advocated actively for greater representation and support for people living with cognitive diseases. He plans to participate in the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement Advocacy Forum, on June 1-3 in the upcoming Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C.
Ludwig Straub, professor of economics at Harvard University, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association, given annually to economists under the age of 40 who are judged to have made ‘the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge’. He was awarded for his work in understanding household inequality and its interaction with fiscal and monetary policy.
At least two Cambridge residents received a Pulitzer Prize in May. Mark Lamster, an architecture critic at the Dallas Morning News who resides primarily in Cambridge, won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his 2025 writing on a slew of architectural concerns in Dallas. One of the articles considered was his commentary on the proposed demolishing of Dallas’ storied City Hall. Lamster’s third book, “Welcome to Paradox City,” a history of Dallas as told through its architecture, will be published this August.
Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian who is also a professor at Harvard Law School and a New Yorker staff writer, won the History prize for “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” The book explores how the Constitution has become something of an infallible, unamendable document.. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer twice, in 2006 for her book “New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan” and in 2019 for Criticism, for selected writings from The New Yorker. Her forthcoming book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State”, which will tackle the political dangers of AI and other advanced technologies, is slated for release this August.
Nature photographer and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) fellow Derrick Z. Jackson won the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for Opinion/Op-Ed writing for a series of columns on the Trump Administration’s rollback of environmental protections, published in The Equation, a blog from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Jackson was also nominated for the awards gallery in two wildlife categories at the 12th Fine Art Photography Awards, one for his “Heron Harpoon” image, which won an Applied Arts award this year, and for a series of puffin photos. Jackson also placed third in the 92nd Headliner Awards in Single Feature Photo for a photograph of a blue heron eating a fish, and in Individual Photo Portfolio for a collection of images used to illustrate his work for UCS and The Money Trail substack.
Cambridge Rindge and Latin junior Samuel Mayle has been named to the 40th cohort of the Bronfman Fellowship, a leadership and learning program for Jewish 11th graders. Fellows spend five weeks between the U.S. and Israel studying major topics in contemporary Jewish life, learning from rabbis and educators from around the globe and partaking in arts workshops with Jewish artists. Mayle is currently a Hartman Teen Fellow and sings as a part of HaZimar International Jewish Teen Choir. At CRLS, he leads the Investment and Mock Trial clubs, while also competing in the Maimonides Moot Court Competition. He is also an intern at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
Boston Marathon runners
Among Cambridge residents who ran the Boston Marathon in April were Matthew Tonini, who ran as part of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation’s “Green Runs Deep” team, which raised a team record $400,000 for the foundation. Since 2014, the team has raised a total of $2 million. Tonini is a senior scientist at Boston-based Tango Therapeutics.
Marlin Mendoza ran as part of Beth Israel Leahy’s team in support of Mount Auburn Hospital and in memory of his grandmother, who died from cancer in 2023. Mendoza is a lead medical assistant in the Urology Department. He raised $9,864.
In his first ever Boston Marathon, Blair Bateson ran with the Bank of America company team. Batson is senior vice president of net zero strategy at the bank. ran in his first even Boston Marathon this year. The Calgary native was running for the Canadian Liver Foundation. His father died of a rare liver disease in 2024, and his brother is now living with the same condition.
Also running in his first Boston Marathon, Ryan Gibeau ran to raise money and awareness for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts, which provides youth across the state with one-to-one mentoring. Gibeau volunteers as a Big Brother. He raised $7,025 in a fundraiser he set up for the organization and ran as part of a team of six other runners.
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