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Alpern is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Anne X. Alpern (1903–1981), American jurist and politician * Anita Alpern (1920–2006), American government administrator * Evelyn Alpern (1903–1977), American psychiatrist * Mathew Alpern (1920–1996), American physiologist *Merry Alpern (born 1955), American photographer * Ruth Alpern Madoff (born 1941), American wife of Bernie Madoff *Sara Alpern (born 1942), American historian *Steve Alpern Steve Alpern is a professor of Operational Research at the University of Warwick, where he recently moved after working for many years at the London School of Economics. His early work was mainly in the area of dynamical systems and ergodic the ...
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Merry Alpern
Merry Alpern (born 1955 in New York City) is an American photographer whose work has been shown in museums and exhibitions around the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her most notable work is her 1993-94 series ''Dirty Windows'', a controversial project in which she took photos of an illegal sex club through a bathroom window in Manhattan near Wall Street. In 1994, the National Endowment for the Arts rejected recommended photography fellowships to Alpern, as well as Barbara DeGenevieve and Andres Serrano. Merry Alpern became one of many artists assaulted by congressional conservatives trying to defund the National Endowment for the Arts because of this series. As a result, museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco rushed to exhibit the series. She later produced and exhibited another series called ''Sh ...
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Mathew Alpern
Mathew Alpern (September 22, 1920 – May 16, 1996) was an American physiologist known for his research on color vision and color blindness. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from University of Florida in 1946 and from Ohio State University in 1950 with a PhD supervised by Glenn A. Fry. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991. He died on May 16, 1996, at the University of Michigan Health System of congestive heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF typically pr .... Awards * Edgar D. Tillyer Award, 1984 * Charles F. Prentice Medal, 1988 * Honorary Doctor of Science from the State University of New York, 1988 References 1920 births 1996 deaths American physiologists University of Michigan faculty University of Florida alumni Ohio Sta ...
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Ruth Madoff
Ruth Madoff ( ; Alpern; born May 18, 1941) is an American former bookkeeper and the widow of Bernie Madoff, the convicted American financial fraudster who served a prison sentence for a criminal financial scheme until his death in April 2021. After her husband's arrest for his fraud, she and her husband attempted suicide in 2008. While she had $70 million in assets in her name, after her husband was imprisoned she was stripped of all of her money other than $2.5 million by the government, and by the trustee for her husband's firm, Irving Picard. Early life Madoff was born in Queens, New York, to Saul (an accountant who died in 1999, at age 95) and Sara (Presser) Alpern (died in 1996, at age 92), and raised in middle class Laurelton, Queens, in a practicing Jewish family. She has one sister, Joan Roman. A graduate of Far Rockaway High School and a 1961 graduate of Queens College with a degree in Psychology, she graduated from New York University with a Master of Science degree ...
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Sara Alpern
Sara Alpern was a professor of history at Texas A&M University where she is known for her work on women's history, especially suffrage, eating disorders in women, and women in management. Education and career Alpern studied at Western Reserve University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ... in 1978. She began teaching at Texas A&M in 1979, first as an assistant professor and she was promoted to associate professor in 1988. From 1991 until 1993 she was the president of the Women’s Faculty Network at Texas A&M. Selected publications * * Reviews of ''The Challenge of Feminist Biography'' * * * * * References Living people Texas A&M University faculty ...
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Anne X
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie and Ana. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). In Ireland the name is used as an anglicized version of Áine. Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (16 ...
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Anita Alpern
Anita F. Alpern (February 18, 1920 in New York City – October 31, 2006 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was an assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. At the time of her retirement in the late 1970s, she was the highest ranking woman in the federal career service. Alpern received her degree at the University of Wisconsin and did graduate work in public administration at Columbia University before moving to Washington, D.C. during World War II. She entered the federal workforce as a labor market economist in the Department of Labor. Later she held a position as a systems research and management analyst at the Defense Department, before moving on to the IRS in the Treasury Department in 1960. At the IRS, Alpern was one of the first eight women to be appointed to a GS-18 level and the first woman appointed an assistant commissioner in the Treasury Department. She was one of six in 1975 to receive the Federal Woman's Award, and in 1985, she was the first woman to rece ...
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Evelyn Alpern
Evelyn may refer to: Places Australia * Evelyn County, New South Wales, a cadastral division * Electoral district of Evelyn, an electoral district in Victoria * Evelyn, Queensland, a locality in the Tablelands Region Canada * Evelyn, Ontario United Kingdom *Evelyn, London *Evelyn Gardens, a garden square in London United States * Evelyn, Michigan * Evelyn, Texas * Evelyn, Wirt County, West Virginia * Evelyn (VTA), former light rail train station in Mountain View, California Schools * Evelyn College for Women, or Evelyn College, the former women's college of Princeton University * Evelyn High School, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Entertainment * ''Evelyn'' (2002 film), a film starring Sophie Vavasseur and Pierce Brosnan * ''Evelyn'' (2018 film), a documentary * '' Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl'', 2002 short film and black comedy directed by Brad Peyton * ''Evelyn'' (play), a 1969 radio play by Rhys Adrian * ''Evelyn'' (EP), an EP by The Mess Hall * "Evelyn", so ...
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