Timothy Snyder, postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, will be awarded the Oskar Halecki Polish and East Central European History Award for his book, Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905.

Published in 1997 by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), the book traces the development and intellectual growth of Kelles-Krauz, who was an important social thinker in the traditions of Polish socialism, European positivism, and liberal nationalism. The book is available through Harvard University Press.

The Halecki Prize is administered by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. This is the second HURI book to win the prize since its inception four years ago.

Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor, was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society last month in Philadelphia.

The commemorative medal was created by authorization of the United States Congress in 1906 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. It is the Society's highest award in the sciences or humanities.

Herbert C. Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, was awarded "das Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse" (the Austrian Medal of Honor for Science and Art, First Class). The Medal is the Austrian government's highest decoration in the field of science.