With voter turnout down in many flood-ravaged wards and up in relatively undamaged areas, residents of neighborhoods like the Lower 9th Ward and eastern New Orleans could see an erosion of political clout, according to a study released by sociology Professor John Logan.

The companion Web site to American Heritage magazine reviews the new book “Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution.” The review notes that the brothers’ story “has assumed new importance in recent years, as Brown University ... has impaneled a committee of administrators and faculty members to investigate the relationship between the university’s early financing and the Brown family’s profit from the slave trade.” The review notes that President Ruth Simmons, “the first African-American president of an Ivy League university ... sits at the helm of a college that may have been built partly on the sweat and tears of her ancestors but whose transformation over the years testifies to the long sweep of Rhode Island’s, and America’s, history.”

Joseph Penn, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, was interviewed for this piece and others in a package of articles on atypical anti-psychotics, a new generation of drugs approved by the FDA for use by adults, but now being prescribed for children.

Joseph Penn, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, was interviewed for this piece and others in a package of articles on atypical anti-psychotics, a new generation of drugs approved by the FDA for use by adults, but now being prescribed for children.

President Ruth J. Simmons is among the people delivering Commencement addresses to Georgia colleges and universities. She will speak at Morehouse College on May 14.