AAPSS | Mario L. Small, Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology at Harvard, is one of five distinguished scholars to be inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science at a ceremony to be held in Washington, D.C., on October 8, 2020.

GMAS release 1_52.5 is a bug fix release and will be available at the start of business on Thursday February 27, 2020

The following issues are being addressed:

• The person and org lookups for adding interfaculty involvement did not always respond correctly to mouse clicks.
• Trying to save a preference to default the project snapshot to open resulted in an unhandled exception.
• Fixed an error that occurred when trying to delete a request with an associated IRB study.
• Fixed an issue where IRB studies with multiple...

It’s long been known that endurance athletes have larger hearts on average than the rest of the population and that cardiac enlargement is a healthy adaptation to exercise.

But what wasn’t known until now was whether the aorta — the main artery leaving the heart and supplying the body with oxygenated blood — followed suit, and if it did, whether that might pose problems as athletes aged.

“The prevailing wisdom is that the aorta is a relatively stable structure with minimal plasticity,” said Aaron L. Baggish, investigator in Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Cardiovascular...