Director of the Harvard Foundation and associate professor of neurology S. Allen Counter received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Morehouse College's commencement exercises on May 16. Morehouse College is one of the historically African- American colleges, and is located in Atlanta, Ga.

Wiersema Named Foley Environmental Fellow at Law School

Annecoos Wiersema, who is graduating from the Law School this June, has been named the 1999-2000 George W. Foley Jr. Fellow in Environmental Law at the Law School. Wiersema will succeed Jason Waanders '98, the School's first Foley Fellow, effective Sept. 1, 1999. She plans an academic career in domestic and international environmental law.

Gates Receives Honor at Hamilton College

Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro- American Research, was awarded an honorary degree from Hamilton College at its 187th commencement on May 23. Gates also delivered the commencement address.

Six Faculty Members Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Lewis C. Cantley, professor of medicine and cell biology; Daniel S. Fisher, professor of physics; Jonathan Seidman, Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics; Joseph Weiler, Jean Monnet Chair and Manley Hudson Professor of Law; Cornel West, Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; and Irene Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts; are among the 153 new fellows elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This year's inductees join the Academy's membership of approximately 4,000 Fellows nationwide, including 160 Nobel laureates and 65 Pulitzer Prize winners, who have been recognized for their contributions to sciences, scholarship, public afairs, and the arts.

On Oct. 2, 1999, new members will be formally inducted in ceremonies at the House of the Academy in Cambridge.

Gomes Participates in Hebrew Union Commencement

The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes gave the commencement address and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City on May 13. He received the honorary degree because of his work as a minister, theologian, and professor whose "untiring efforts have been directed at keeping alive the morals and values of the Judeo-Christian tradition" and who "as inspiring teacher, author, and preacher represents the epitome of the religious academic ideal."