|
|
HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Newsmakers
Ioli elected president of MPMS
|
| Ioli |
James P. Ioli, a clinical instructor in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School of Podiatry, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Podiatric Medical Society (MPMS). MPMS is the commonwealth’s professional society for podiatric physicians and surgeons. Ioli has served on the MPMS board since 1996 and has chaired the MPMS membership committee for the past three years. He is also president of the New England region of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons.
Ioli serves as chief of podiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Orthopedic/Arthritis Center at Health South Braintree Hospital, and is a staff member at New England Baptist, Caritas Good Samaritan, Brockton, and South Shore hospitals. He is board-certified in podiatric surgery by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons.
Book prize created in memory of Delba Winthrop Mansfield
A book prize has been established in memory of Delba Winthrop Mansfield Ph.D. ’67. The longtime lecturer at the Harvard Extension School and director of the Program on Constitutional Government died Aug. 16 in Cambridge, Mass. Contributions may be made to the Delba Winthrop Fund, and sent to Ken Weinstein, c/o the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
Rogoff to deliver Okun Lecture
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics Ken Rogoff recently accepted an invitation from Yale University to deliver the annual Arthur M. Okun Lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Economics at Yale University and Yale University Press, the series has featured some of the nation’s most eminent scholars. Rogoff will travel to New Haven Oct. 3-4 to deliver his talk, “The Globalization of Monetary Policy.”Nathan wins medicine’s triple crown
David G. Nathan, Robert A. Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has won two of medicine’s most prestigious awards in the same month. In April, he received the George Kober Medal, the top award in internal medicine, for his contributions to research on inherited blood disorders. Then he took the 2006 Walker Prize of the Museum of Science, Boston, for scientific investigation and discovery. Nathan adds these to the John Howland Award, the highest honor of the American Pediatric Society, given to him in 2003. Only two other physicians have won both the Kober and the Howland medal.
Lindsay’s ‘Lamb’ earns Intro Award
|
| Lindsay |
Frannie Lindsay, graduate coordinator in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has been awarded the 2006 Intro Award from Perugia Press for her second volume of poetry, “Lamb.” The annual award is designated for the first or second collection of poems by a woman poet. It consists of book publication and a cash prize of $1,000.
A current recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Grant, Lindsay’s first book, “Where She Always Was,” won the May Swenson Award from Utah State University Press in 2004. She has held a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Yale Review, and Salamander, among other periodicals. She will give a reading at the Blacksmith House on Oct. 30 at 8 p.m.
|