A trio of Harvard students placed eighth in an international software-writing contest that featured 62 teams from around the world.

Matthew Caywood, a senior from Leverett House, Russell Cox, a junior from Currier House, and Elliot Shmukler, a senior from Adams House, traveled to the Netherlands last week for the world finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery and sponsored by IBM.

During the contest, which took place April 8 to 11, students worked with team members to write, test, and debug software programs.

A team from the University of Waterloo in Ontario won first place, followed by teams from Germany and Russia. Other countries represented in the top 10 include Romania, the United States, and Taiwan.

Harvard Magazine Selects Two Undergraduates as Fellows

Harvard Magazine has named two students the Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for 1999-2000. Geoffrey Fowler '00 and Caille Millner '01 will serve editorial fellowships at the magazine for the academic year and contribute both as authors of the magazine's "Undergraduate" column, established in 1936, and as general reporter-researchers.

Levenson Named Luce Fellow in Theology

Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at the Divinity School, has been named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 1999-2000. His research topic is "The Tree of Life: The Loss, Recovery, and Redefinition of Immortality in Judaism and Christianity."

The Luce Fellowships support a sabbatical year for innovative research and writing in theology. The fellowships are funded by the Henry Luce Foundaton and administered by the Association of Theological Schools. Six members of Harvard's Faculty of Divinity have been recipients of Henry Luce III Fellowships since the program's inception in 1994.

Fraenkel Awarded Runyon-Winchell Fellowship

Ernest Fraenkel, a postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology, has been awarded a Runyon-Winchell postdoctoral fellowship (the Cancer Research Fund).

Stephen Harrison, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is Fraenkel's sponsor.

The recipients of this award are young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research that is relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. The three-year fellowships are carried out in the laboratories of the fellows' sponsors.