Three new members appointed to Laboratory Schools Board

Three new members have been named to the Laboratory Schools Board of Directors by University President Don Randel. All are leaders in the business or academic community and are already familiar with the school through their active role as parents.

Dr. Halina Brukner is Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Chicago. A graduate of Yale College, she received her M.D. degree from New York University School of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and joined the faculty in 1985.

At the University, she has been active in improving medical education and in faculty development programs. She has directed several major courses in clinical medicine and has won numerous awards and honors as a clinician and teacher, both locally and nationally. She was selected by a poll of physicians as one of the "Best Doctors in America, Midwest Division," and as one of the "Best Doctors in Chicago" by Chicago Magazine. Her children are current sixth- and ninth-graders at the Laboratory Schools, and she has been involved in school life at Lab as a parent since 1992.

Ann Marie Lipinski is Senior Vice President and Editor of the Chicago Tribune. Before her current position, Lipinski was the newspaper's vice president and executive editor. As a reporter, Lipinski won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for a series entitled "City Council: The Spoils of Power," sharing the award with two fellow Tribune reporters.

In 1989, Lipinski, a graduate of the University of Michigan, was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship for Journalists at Harvard University, where she spent a year of study. Upon her return to the Tribune in June 1990, she became head of the newspaper's investigative team. Her daughter has been at Lab since 1998 and is currently in the second grade.

Randal C. Picker is the Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law and a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. He has been a faculty member at the University since 1989 and a Lab parent since 1993. His children are in the second and sixth grades.

Picker graduated from the College of the University in 1980, received a master's degree in economics from the University in 1982, and a J.D. from the UniversityÕs Law School in 1985. His primary areas of interest are law relating to competition policy and regulated industries, capital formation and redeployment, and applications of game theory and agent-based computer simulations to the law.