New Gazette feature seeks items of interest from across the University

With this issue, the Harvard University Gazette begins a new feature designed to get more news from around the University into the paper. "News Across Harvard" will provide a forum for each department's happenings as they concern the University community at-large. Tell us about newsworthy events in your office: awards won, new appointments in your department, major organizational changes or initiatives, retirements, and so forth. Shawn Zeller '97, a student who has written extensively for the Gazette and served as The Harvard Crimson's ombudsman, will compile the column.

Submissions must be written in newspaper style (third-person rather than first-person) and be 80 words or less. Submissions must be e-mailed to hunews@harvard.edu, and will run on a space-available basis. Please include a phone number and a contact person in case there are questions. The Gazette reserves the right to edit all items, and regrets that it cannot publish items regarding personal milestones, such as births, engagements, and weddings.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Linda L. Greyser, associate director of programs in professional education at the GSE, has received the first-ever Wayland High School Alumni & Parents Association Award, given "for decades of service to the children of Wayland." A former member of the Wayland School Committee, Greyser was the first president of the Suburban Coalition and co-founder of the Wayland Public Schools Foundation.

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

Maria L. Henderson, a third-year law student, was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Judicature Society, a national organization that promotes improvements in the courts. Henderson is also a class representative for the Office of Public Interest Advising.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

Clinical instructor in neurology Linda Buchwald, M.D., has been appointed to the Medical Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Medical Advisory Board is the principal professional advisory group consulted by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in matters of medical practice, patient management, and services. Members of the 60-member board serve four-year terms.

Alan M. Jacobson, M.D., professor of psychiatry, was recently named vice president and medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. Previously, Jacobson had served as chief of psychiatry at Joslin. In that role, he headed Joslin's participation in the 10-year Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) that found that people with diabetes who closely control their blood sugar level reduce their risk of diabetes complications by 50 percent or more.

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health Emeritus, was awarded the Walter Reed Medal in recognition of his accomplishments in the field of tropical medicine at the 1996 meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Weller headed the Department of Tropical Public Health at Harvard from 1954 to 1981. In 1954, Weller won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with colleagues John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins for their work in applying tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Associate Curator of the University Archives for Administration and Research Clark A. Elliott published "Periodicals and Recent Historical Writing on American Science" in the spring/summer issue of History of Science in America: News and Views.

Rebecca Smith, reference librarian in the Business School's Baker Library, coauthored an article titled "Reference Services: More than Information Chauffeuring" in the summer issue of Special Libraries.

Dawn Seavey was hired as a new staff assistant in the Office of the Director of the University Library. Reporting to the department administrator, Seavey will provide administrative and secretarial support to senior staff members and University Library committees.

 

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