Anne-Marie Oreskovich '99, from Spokane, Wash., was named by USA Today as a member of the All-USA College Academic First Team. With a concentration in mathematics, Oreskovich hopes to have a career as a mathematician. She is one of 20 students named to the All-USA College Academic First Team chose from 984 who competed.

This is the 10th year USA Today has honored students for "outstanding intellectual achievement and leadership." Criteria include grades, awards and activities, leadership roles, and public service. First Team members receive $2,500.

Three Harvard students received honorable mentions.

Nixon Appointed to NAICU's Board of Directors

Nan Nixon, director of federal relations at Harvard, was appointed to the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). She assumed her new responsibilities last month at the Association's 23rd annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Nixon will serve a three-year term.

Medical Students Selected for Fellowships

The Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students has selected 35 gifted minority medical students and provides them grants to conduct research. At Harvard Medical School, three were selected: Yashika Dooley '00, Erica Marsh '00, and Alfredo Quiñones- Hinojosa '99.

The Fellowship seeks to increase the number of African Americans, Mexican Americans, mainland Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans in biomedical research and academic medicine.

Business School's Stevenson Wins Mentorship Award

The Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management presented its Mentorship Award to Howard H. Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, for his lifetime contributions to developing scholars in the area of entrepreneurial management.

Brinkmann Gives Talk on Brahms in Leipzig

Reinhold Brinkmann, the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, recently delivered the annual Riemann Lecture at the University of Leipzig. His subject was "Johannes Brahms and the Visual Arts." The lecture took place in the newly restored Musiksalon of the house of Felix Mendelssohn, where the composer resided during the last years of his life.