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October 21, 1999

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Kiros Wins American Political Science Association Award

Teodros Kiros, an associate of the Department of Afro-American Studies, received the 1999 Michael Harrington Book Award for his book Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values: Truth, Language, and Desire at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Atlanta.

The Harrington Award Committee of the Caucus for a New Political Science granted the award for "an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world." Author of five books, Kiros attempts in his latest work "to develop a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values, and through them to become self-empowered, responsible participants in a democratic community."
Pomeroy Wins Compassionate Caregiver Award
Scott Pomeroy, associate professor of neurology and staff neurologist at Children’s Hospital, received the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center’s first annual Compassionate Caregiver Award on Oct. 19. The Center seeks to strengthen the relationship between patients and caregivers through education, training, advocacy, policy development, and research. The award recognizes a caregiver who displays extraordinary compassion in caring for patients.

Pomeroy is co-director of the Brain Tumor Program and consultant in pediatric oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He cares for children with brain tumors and is particularly interested in medulloblastoma.

Wilson Inducted into University of Alabama Hall of Fame
E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, was inducted into the University of Alabama Communication Hall of Fame on Oct. 7. Established by the College of Communication and Information Sciences' Board of Visitors, the Communication Hall of Fame was created in 1998 to honor, preserve, and perpetuate the names and accomplishments of those who have brought lasting fame to the state of Alabama.

An Alabama native, Wilson received his B.S. (’49) and M.S. (’50) in biology from the University of Alabama, and went on to receive his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard (’55). Wilson's latest book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, calls for the union of science and the humanities.