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Council of the British Academy elects Bar-Yosef to fellowship

MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology Ofer Bar-Yosef joined nine other scholars to be elected 2005 Corresponding Fellows by the Council of the British Academy. These fellows are scholars habitually resident outside the United Kingdom who have "attained high international standing in any of the branches of study which it is the object of the academy to promote." Election to the fellowship is the highest honor awarded by the academy in recognition of scholarly distinction.

HGSE's Gardner accepts honorary degree in Chile

Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), recently received an honorary degree from the University of Valparaiso in Chile. Gardner was honored for his theory of multiple intelligences and its influence in education and business. Before the award ceremony, Gardner, who heads the GoodWork Project at Project Zero at HGSE, delivered a daylong seminar on his theories to 400 invited guests.

APHA honors Harvard School of Public Health affiliates

A Harvard School of Public Health faculty member and alumnus were honored at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) this past December in Philadelphia. Associate Professor of Biostatistics Rebecca Betensky received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award, given to an outstanding public health statistician under age 40. Barry Levy M.P.H. '70 meanwhile, received the 2005 Sedgwick Memorial Medal. Awarded annually since 1929, this medal is given to an individual who has demonstrated a remarkable record of service while working to further public health practice and knowledge.

Academy of Sciences for the Developing World honors Juma

Renowned Kenyan scientist Calestous Juma, a professor of the practice of international development at the Kennedy School of Government, was recently elected to the prestigious Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Juma has been honored for his outstanding contributions to policy research on the application of science and technology to development in Africa. A total of 50 fellows from nearly two dozen countries were elected to the academy at its December meeting in Alexandria, Egypt.

Schier honored for scientific achievements by AAA

The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) has awarded Alexander Schier, professor of molecular and cellular biology, its Harland Winfield Mossman Award in Developmental Biology. Schier will present an award lecture titled "The Molecular Genetics of Zebrafish Embryogenesis: From Nodal Signals to Micro RNAs" at the association's annual meeting this April in San Francisco.

University Professor earns achievement award

This past December, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation named James Bryant Conant University Professor Stephen Owen among its group of four Distinguished Achievement Award recipients. These awards honor scholars who have made significant contributions to humanistic inquiry. Amounting to as much as $1.5 million each, the awards provide the recipients and their institutions with resources to deepen and extend humanistic studies.

Regarded as a leading authority on Tang dynasty poetry and Chinese poetry, Owen was recognized for his "uncommon intellect and commitment to scholarship." The foundation cited his intensive monographic analysis, compilation and editing, and translations in helping to advance the study of Chinese poetry both within and outside academia.

Further description of the awards and the foundation's programs is available at http://www.mellon.org/AnnualReports/2001/essay/ZuckermanMeisel2001.htm.

- Compiled by Andrew Brooks