Notables

Daniel Mandell, professor of history, will discuss his new book, “The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600-1870,” in an online Zoom conversation with Liz Covart, host of the podcast Ben Franklin’s World and digital projects editor with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. The event is hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society in its author talks series and will take place at 5:30 p.m. May 14. Click here to register.

Sloane Totta, women’s basketball, earned this year’s Great Lakes Valley Conference Postgraduate Scholarship. The GLVC Postgraduate Scholarship is awarded to two recipients each year in the amount of $2,500 each to be used in the first year of post-graduate enrollment at the institution of their choice. Totta has maintained a 4.0 GPA during her four years on campus as a communication disorders major. She made the President’s List every semester, and will soon become a four-time Academic All-GLVC honoree. She plans to pursue a master’s degree at Truman in order to become a speech-language pathologist. In order to qualify for consideration, the nominee must graduate by the end of the academic season – or by the end of the summer – of the application year, must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 or better (on a 4.0 grading scale), have competed in a GLVC-sponsored sport for at least two years, and be a member of a team in the year the scholarship is awarded. Each league member may nominate one male and one female from their respective institution.