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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
American Philosophical Society Elects New Members
The American Philosophical Society elected 38 resident members
and 9 foreign members at its Annual General Meeting in Philadelphia
last month. The new members from Harvard include:
Mary Maples Dunn,Pforzheimer Foundation Director,
the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library; M. Judah
Folkman, Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery
and professor of anatomy and cellular biology, Medical School;
Patricia Albjerg Graham, Charles Warren Professor of
the History of American Education; Oscar Handlin,
professor of history; David G. Nathan, president, Dana-
Farber Cancer Institute, and Richard and Susan Smith Professor of
Medicine, and professor of pediatrics, Medical School; Hilary
Putnam, Walter B. Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic and
Modern Math; and Evon Z. Vogt Jr., professor of
anthropology emeritus, and honorary curator of Middle
American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum.
Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the American
Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in the United
States devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly
inquiry.
Daniel Bell Gives Keynote Address at Suntory
Anniversary
Daniel Bell, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science
Emeritus, was one of the keynote speakers at the symposium
celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Suntory Foundation in Tokyo
last month.
The theme of the symposium was the role of the Commitee on
Intellectual Correspondence, an organization that Bell helped create
to foster international intellectual exchange.
The Suntory Foundation, which is the main sponsor of the
Committee on Intellectual Correspondence, is one of the leading
cultural foundations in Japan. Bell has been a director of the
Foundation for 17 years.
Minority Medical Students Present Research at
Symposium
Erica Marsh, Yashika Dooley, and Alfredo Quinones-
Hinojosa, all Medical School students, presented their
biomedical research projects during the annual symposium of the
Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students. The
symposium, which featured presentations by 32 of the nation's
most gifted minority medical students, is the largest annual
gathering of its kind in the United States. The event took place
earlier this spring at the headquarters of the Bristol-Myers Squibb
Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, N.J.
Copyright
1999 President and Fellows of Harvard College
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