Newsmakers

GSD Registrar Snowdon Wins Excellence Award

Laura Snowdon, registrar at the Graduate School of Design, has been selected by the GSD Reward and Recognition Committee as the second recipient of the Dean's Employee Excellence Award. Snowdon received a check for $1,000 for demonstrating outstanding initiative, leadership, and commitment to quality.

A. Razzaque Ahmed Establishes Visiting Lectureship

The A. Razzaque Ahmed Visiting Lectureship was recently created at the School of Dental Medicine thanks to A. Razzaque Ahmed '88. The lectureship will allow a senior scholar, with an international reputation in teaching and research in areas that intercept with dental medicine, an opportunity to share his or her research and/or clinical expertise with the students and faculty at the School of Dental Medicine and the Boston medical community.

Spirituality Seminar to be Funded in Psychiatry Program

John Peteet, associate professor of clinical psychiatry, and Mary McCarthy, instructor in psychiatry, at the Medical School won a $15,000 John Templeton Award for Psychiatric Training Programs. Their program at Brigham and Women's Hospital involves a seminar in spirituality/religion and psychiatry for postgraduate residents. The award was presented in Washington, D.C., on April 14 by the National Institute for Healthcare Research.

Two Undergraduates Named Fellows at Harvard Magazine

Two undergraduates were selected as Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the '98-99 academic year. The students will work -- during their extracurricular hours -- at Harvard Magazine and contribute both as authors of the magazine's "Undergraduate" column and as general reporter-researchers. The fellows are:

Sara Houghteling '99, from Brookline, a Dunster House resident who is concentrating in English and American literature and language. This summer, Sara will cover the Riviera for the Let's Go guide to France. Last summer, she attended a creative writing workshop in Prague and traveled throughout the Czech Republic.

Jennifer Lee '99, from New York City, a Pforzheimer House resident who is concentrating in applied mathematics and economics. This summer, Jennifer will intern at the Washington Post; last summer, she interned at the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau.

The fellows for the current academic year are Sewell Chan '98 and Tara Purohit '99.