Honorary degrees given to faculty members

Lewis Lockwood, the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, received an honorary doctorate from Boston's New England Conservatory of Music on May 18. Lockwood is a widely admired authority on the music of the Italian Renaissance and of 18th- and 19th-century Europe, with a special emphasis on Beethoven.

Gloria Johnson Powell, professor of child psychiatry at the Medical School and director of the Camille Cosby Ambulatory Care Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, received an honorary doctorate from Mount Holyoke College on May 25. A former civil rights activist, Powell has taught at various medical schools in the U.S. and Africa. Her expertise includes the topics of minority children and child sexual abuse.

The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes is the recipient of three honorary degrees, presented to him during May commencement services. Duke University, the University of Nebraska, and Wooster College in Ohio bestowed Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degrees on Gomes. He also gave commencement addresses at the University of Nebraska -- Lincoln, Wooster College, and the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

The Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle presented an honorary degree to Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, this spring.

Two graduate students receive Dibner fellowship awards

Two Ph.D. candidates from the Department of the History of Science have been named Graduate Student Fellows at M.I.T.'s Dibner Institute for 1997-98. Conevery Bolton is exploring the subject of health, health practices, and medical assumptions about disease among settlers in the Western territories in the early and mid-19th century. Nani Clow will use the experimental physics laboratory of Oliver Lodge (1851-1940) at University College, Liverpool, to examine the relationships among industry, research, engineering, and pedagogy.

Violinist Lin wins Nicholas Green scholarship

Joseph Lin '00 is one of three recipients of a $2,500 Nicholas Green Scholarship, promoting talented young students' study abroad, which was awarded for the first time this year. Lin, an accomplished violinist, has received several national awards for concerto competition and will make his New York debut at Carnegie Hall's Recital Hall this year.

The Nicholas Green Scholarship Fund was created in memory of Green, a 7-year-old who was killed in an act of violence while vacationing with his family in Italy.

Paine Traveling Fellowships Go to Six Students

An undergraduate and five graduate students have won John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowships for their "distinguished talent and originality in musical composition and high musical scholarship." Jonathan Yates '97 will use his award to study conducting in Italy.

Among the graduate-student winners, Noël Bisson will conduct dissertation research in British libraries and museums. Jen-yen Chen will pursue dissertation research in Viennese archives. Stefan Hakenberg will study composition at the Aspen (Colo.) Music School. At the UCLA ethnomusicology laboratory, Hiroko Ito will investigate the practical use of traditional Japanese instruments in modern composition. Andrew Shenton will do research in Paris on the late Olivier Messiaen.

The fellowship was established in 1912 by Mary Elizabeth Paine, widow of composer John Knowles Paine, founder of the Harvard Music Department. Traditionally, the Department gives the award to at least one undergraduate and one graduate student to support research and/or continued study during the summer or the following academic year.

Graduate student wins dissertation research award

Charles McGuire, graduate student in music, has won the 1997 Nino and Lea Pirrotta Graduate Research Award. McGuire will use the prize to conduct dissertation research in England. The Nino and Lea Pirrotta Graduate Research Fund was established in 1983 in honor of Professor Pirrotta's 75th birthday and is awarded to graduate students in the Department of Music each year.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects new members

Several faculty members were recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their distinguished contributions to science, scholarship, public affairs, and the arts. Among the new members are Alan Altshuler, academic dean at the Kennedy School of Government; Arthur Dempster, professor of theoretical statistics; Rose Frisch, associate professor of population science; Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology; Harold Howe II, senior lecturer emeritus at the Graduate School of Education; Bill Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation; Eva Julia Neer, professor of medicine; Chester Pierce, professor of education and psychiatry; and Naomi Schor, professor of Romance languages and literatures. These members are among 151 new Fellows and 14 Foreign Honorary Members recently elected by the Academy.

Faculty member, alum honored for service to the poor

An assistant professor and an alumnus were recently recognized for their support of primary health care and preventive services to people in Haiti, Mexico, Peru, and the inner cities of the United States.

Paul E. Farmer, assistant professor of medical anthropology, and Thomas J. White '42 are this year's recipients of Weston Jesuit School of Theology's highest honor, the Pedro Arrupe Medal for Excellence in Ministry.

In 1987, Farmer and White established Partners In Health, a Cambridge-based organization that works with community organizations on projects to improve the health of the poor and to struggle with them against the economic and political structures that create their poverty.

CMES's Shedd returns from study in Saudi Arabia, Qatar

Carol Shedd, director of outreach at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, met with senior government officials, university personnel, public and private sector leaders, and others during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar as a Joseph J. Malone Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies.

During the two-week program, Shedd attended briefings, meetings, and lectures on Arab culture and history, and contemporary Arab society, as well as specific issues related to U.S.-Saudi Arabian and U.S.-Qatari bilateral relations and each country's developmental and modernization goals.

Two seniors win Barrett Awards

Two graduating seniors, Elana Oberstein of Kirkland House and Nicholas Szumski of Eliot House, received 1996-97 Barrett Awards. The award, given annually, was established in memory of Joseph L. Barrett '74, and in recognition of other young people at Harvard College who pursue their interest in learning and in the learning of others with the vigor and openness characteristic of Joe Barrett. Both Oberstein and Szumski worked in tutoring programs at the Bureau of Study Counsel.

Prize-winning columnist Anthony Lewis to speak at HLS Class Day

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and former Supreme Court reporter Anthony Lewis '48 will be the Law School's 1997 Class Day Speaker. Lewis will deliver his address during Class Day activities on Wednesday, June 4, at 2:30 p.m. on Holmes Field.

In 1974, Lewis became a lecturer at the Law School, a position he held for 15 years.

Frates wins leadership award for junior women faculty

The Research and Education Foundation of the Association for Women Radiologists recently named Mary C. Frates, assistant professor of radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, as the 1997 recipient of the Professional Leadership Award for Junior Women Faculty. The award provides funds for Frates to attend the Professional Development Seminar for Junior Women Faculty sponsored by the American Assocication of Medical Colleges in Kansas City.

Wilson wins Garden Club of America award

Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor and Mellon Professor of the Sciences, received the national Frances K. Hutchinson Medal from The Garden Club of America at its annual meeting this spring.

The prize goes to "figures of national importance for distinguished service to conservation." Wilson was recognized for drawing our attention "to the planet's vast and still largely unexplored biological storehouse with its promise of pharmaceuticals and of new ways of drawing income from the land so that conservation and economic welfare may someday happily coexist."

Photography Collection curator to be honored

Barbara Norfleet, director and curator of the Photography Collection at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, will be honored at a dinner given by the Fifth National Women in Photography Conference on May 31. She will also receive an honorary degree from the New Hampshire Institute of Art on May 30.

HIV expert David Ho to give seminar next week

David D. Ho, who graduated in 1978 from the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), will honor his alma mater on Wednesday, June 4, by giving a special seminar.

Ho, who was named Time magazine's 1996 Man of the Year, will present "Dynamics of HIV Replication and Implication for Therapy" for the M.I.T. and Harvard communities at 4 p.m. at the Whitehead Institute auditorium, 9 Cambridge Center, following the HST's graduation exercises.

Ho is a professor at Rockefeller University and head of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City.

Rindfleisch wins Rome Prize in musical composition

The American Academy in Rome has awarded the 1997-98 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Fellowship to Andrew Rindfleisch, teaching assistant in music. The prestigious Rome Prize provides fellowships for American artists and scholars to live and work at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. This year 24 Rome Prizes were awarded in the fields of architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, classical studies, history of art, and post-classical humanistic studies.

Harvard Magazine awards Ledecky Undergraduate Fellowships

Sewell Chan '98 of Quincy House and Tara Purohit '99 of Dunster House have won Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellowships for the 1997-98 academic year. The students will be involved in the magazine's news coverage, production of alumni profiles, and research.

Chan, an executive editor of the Crimson, is interning at The Washington Post this summer. Purohit, who has served as a research assistant to a novelist in residence at the Bunting Institute and as a tutor in the Writing Center, will be involved in producing a musical in Cambridge this summer.