1. The Glass Ceiling Remains Strong

The number of women executives in the largest 100 Massachusetts public companies declined this year to less than 9 percent, or 60 women, according to a recent study by a Boston-based professional women’s networking group.

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2. Symphonic Movement

3. Osamu Shimomura’s Serendipitous Nobel

Osamu Shimomura stood quietly in front of a Medical Campus audience yesterday, slender shoulders slouched forward, eyes gazing down.

Beside him, David Atkinson, chairman of the School of Medicine physiology and biophysics department, displayed a gold medallion the size of his palm to the growing crowd: Shimomura’s Nobel Prize in chemistry.

“See that everybody?” Atkinson asked. “That’s the real thing.”

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4. Senate Candidates Face Off on Environment

Michael Capuano (Hon.’09), six-term congressman, former Somerville mayor, and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, tried hard yesterday afternoon to persuade his audience in the Metcalf Trustee Center that his years in Washington have given him an understanding of senatorial realpolitik — unlike his opponents.

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5. H1N1 Lightens Up