Newsmakers

Harvard goes Hollywood with Oscar nominees

Harvard folks who have gone Hollywood were the subject of a recent Boston Magazine feature. Among them is Mira Sorvino '89 (magna cum laude), who has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite. She is also appearing in the current film Beautiful Girls.

Actress Elisabeth Shue '88 has been nominated for Best Actress for her role in Leaving Las Vegas.

Oscar night is March 25. Stay tuned.

Suarez-Orozco wins social policy book award

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, professor of education, is the recipient of the Social Policy Book Award for his most recent work, Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation among Latino Adolescents (with Carola Suarez-Orozco; Stanford University Press, 1995).

This biannual award from the Society for Research on Adolescents honors the recent book or article that has contributed most to social policy relating to adolescents.

Music librarian wins award for reference work

John B. Howard, the Richard F. French Librarian of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, has won an award in recognition of his outstanding work on a major reference work, Series A/II of the Repertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales. (RISM is an international cooperative effort to identify and describe musical resource materials.)

The citation reads in part: "You have been instrumental in gaining the funding and support necessary to keep the project alive, and have advanced it technologically so that the bibliographic records of musical manuscripts held by libraries in the U.S. along with their musical incipits in staff notation can be accessed via the Internet. This is an enormous achievement which has been recognized and adopted by the international RISM body, so that in the foreseeable future all of the RISM A/II data will be available in the same way."