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Sekler Wins Award for Kathmandu Valley preservation

Eduard Sekler, the Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art Emeritus and professor of architecture emeritus, has been awarded the Royal Nepalese decoration "Gorakha Dakshin Bahu" for his services to the preservation of historic buildings and urban spaces in the Kathmandu Valley. He is a member of the UNESCO Campaign Review Committee for the International Campaign for the Safeguarding of the Kathmandu Valley, editor and co-author of the Masterplan for the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage in the Kathmandu Valley, and the co-founder and, until 1996, the first chairman of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust.

Mary Maples Dunn speaks at Annual Meeting of Women in Development

Mary Maples Dunn, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library, will be the keynote speaker at the annual meeting and luncheon held by Women in Development of Greater Boston on Wednesday, May 20.

The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Ave., Boston, to present its Professional Leadership and New Initiative Awards.

Winston selected as American Academy of Microbiology Fellow

Fred M. Winston, professor of genetics at the Medical School, has been elected to fellowship by the American Academy of Microbiology. Those elected fellows have demonstrated scientific excellence, originality, and leadership, high ethical standards, and scholarly and creative achievement. Fellows represent all aspects of microbiology, including basic and applied research, teaching, public health, industry, and government service.

National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members

The following faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer -- Morris P. Fiorina Jr., Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government; John J. Mekalanos, Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Eva J. Neer, professor of medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Joan V. Ruderman, Nelson Professor of Cell Biology.

Music Fellowship Awarded to Hulse

Graduate student Brian Hulse has won the 1998 John Green Fellowship at the Music Department. Established by family and friends of the late composer (a member of the Class of 1928) to support excellence in musical composition, the fellowship is given annually, alternating between an undergraduate and a graduate student composer.