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December 09, 1999

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Martin Receives AAMC's Flexner Award

Dean Joseph B. Martin was recognized this fall with the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education during the Association of American Medical College's 110th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

The Flexner award, the AAMC's highest honor, was established in 1958 to recognize extraordinary individual contributions to medical schools and to the medical education community as a whole. In naming Martin as this year's Flexner recipient, the AAMC cited his 40-year commitment to patient care, research, and medical education.

The Flexner Award Selection Committee cited Martin's many contributions at both the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard Medical School. Recognizing his efforts at Harvard, the committee praised Martin's ability to build collaborative efforts, including the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the Harvard Clinical Research Initiative, and the National Center for Excellence in Women's Health.

Business School’s Pratt Wins Prize

John W. Pratt, William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration

Emeritus, has won the Ramsey Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the

Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the

Management Sciences (INFORMS). A prolific and pioneering scholar, Pratt is

especially well known for his 1965 paper "Risk Aversion in the Small and in

the Large," one of the most frequently cited works in the field of

economics. Previous Business School winners include Professor Emeritus
Howard Raiffa and the late Professor Robert O. Schlaifer.

Economics Award Goes to FAS, Business School Faculty

Business School Assistant Professor Luis M. Viceira and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell of the Economics Department have won the 1999 FAME Research Prize. Awarded by the International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering, the prize recognized their paper "Who Should Buy Long-Term Bonds?"

Holdren Named Winner of Environment Prize

John Holdren, director of the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, has been named the winner of an "Award of Excellence for 1999" from the Kaul Foundation. Holdren was cited for his work on "a balanced global portfolio of environmentally acceptable energy options and arms control for the Twenty-First Century." The award carries a $110,000 prize.