Active not just on the fashion circuit but in several nonprofits, the New Yorker serves on the Education Committee for the Board of Trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is a member of the International Committee of the Museum of Modern Art.
"You can capture a map of the circuit in the brain that was active, " said Brookhaven neuroscientist Panayotis K. Thanos, who helped develop the technique.
Two of its grads have taken the college drinking game of beer pong (also known as Beirut) off the keg and party circuit and turned it into a business with competitions, merchandise and an active community of players on its website.