Pew Scholars | Biology assistant professor Hunter Fraser was named a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences, and researcher Marina Muzzio was named a Pew Latin American Fellow, also in the biomedical sciences.

Student Oscars | M.F.A. students Anthony Weeks and Theo Rigby win second and third place, respectively, at the annual Student Academy Awards. Weeks’ documentary, Imaginary Circumstances, features the struggles of actors with disabilities in Hollywood. Rigby’s movie, also a documentary called Sin Pais, chronicles the experience of one illegal immigrant family. Both movies are available on the award website.

Featured | The L.A. Times featured a group of seven Marines who are also undergraduates at Stanford. William Treseder ’11, one of the seven, called for the admissions office to aid veterans in the admissions process. “We need a program to allow veterans to compete for admission against students who’ve spent the last nine years of their lives studying to take the SAT,” he said.

Research | Contrary to marketing instinct, small doses of bad news can actually be good for business, according to a recent study from the Graduate School of Business. Such bad news, or “blemishes,” serve to highlight the positive attributes of a product, making consumers more likely to see the product in a better light. Such blemishes must be minor drawbacks, however, and  only worked if they are introduced after a flurry of good news.

Overheard | “Do I think Pakistan needs to expand their nuclear forces to provide a credible deterrent? My answer would be, no. But it really doesn’t matter what Americans or Western officials think,” — Scott Sagan, co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, in an interview with the Global Post discussing the threat of terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons in Pakistan.

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