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Housing Center Names Dissertation Fellowship Recipients

The Joint Center for Housing Studies has awarded fellowship awards for the summer 1998 to two doctoral candidates to support their dissertation research and writing.

Amy B. Noble, architect and doctor of design candidate, will focus on the creation of a new homebuyer market segmentation method to increase the participation of architects in designing market housing for all income levels.

Natalie J. Pickering, a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning and an expert on housing finance in developing countries, will examine the adaptation of U.S. mortgage pricing models for the housing finance system in Mexico.

BCSIA's Stavins Appointed to Named Chair

Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. has named Robert Stavins as the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government. Stavins is currently faculty chair for the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Gomes Receives Mays Award at Bates College

The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Award last month during Bates' reunion weekend. The Mays award is conferred upon a Bates alumnus or alumna who has performed distinguished service to the larger community and the college.

Gomes graduated from Bates in 1965. He recently published the well-received The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart.

Susan Linn Wins Prize in Writing Competition

Susan Linn, associate director of the Media Center at the Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children's Center and an instructor in psychology at the Medical School, has been named a winner in the 1998 Writers at Work Fellowship Competition and will be honored at the Writers at Work Conference on July 12 in Park City, Utah. She is being recognized as one of two winners in the nonfiction essay portion of the national contest.

Writers at Work works to promote writers and the arts on both local and national scales. It is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.