Newsmakers

Ambulatory Pediatric Association honors McCormick

Marie C. McCormick, professor and chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the School of Public Health, will be given the annual Ambulatory Pediatric Association Research Award on Wednesday, May 8. The award will be given in recognition of her research contributions in the areas of the outcomes of very premature infants, and the evaluation of programs to enhance the health and development of children. McCormick is also professor of pediatrics in the Joint Program in Neonatology and director of the Infant Follow-Up Program at Children's Hospital.

Caramazza to accept Signoret Prize

Alfonso Caramazza, professor of psychology, has been selected to receive the Ipsen Foundation's Jean Louis Signoret Prize in the area of Language and the Brain. Caramazza will accept the award, which carries a stipend of 100,000 francs, at a ceremony in Paris in October.

West to deliver Peabody lecture

Cornel West, professor of the philosophy of religion (Divinity School) and of Afro-American studies (FAS), will deliver the inaugural Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture on "The Christian Citizen" at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, in the Memorial Church. The talk is free and open to the public.

Nationally recognized for his work on the African-American experience and contemporary moral, religious, and social values, West has written numerous books, including Keeping the Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (1993), Race Matters (1993), and Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (1995), coauthored with Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor and publisher of Tikkun magazine. His latest work --The Future of the Race, with Du Bois Institute Director Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- appeared this spring.

The lectureship commemorates the third Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who served Harvard from 1886 to 1913. Peabody was also Dean of the Divinity School.

Office for the Arts announces 1996 prize winners

Four undergraduates have been named as recipients of awards from the Office for the Arts and the Harvard Council on the Arts. Jill Weitzner '96 was selected to receive the Doris Cohen Levi Prize, which provides $500 to the Radcliffe College student "who combines talent and energy with outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater." Jessica Fortunato '96 and Colin Stokes '96 are the recipients of the Jonathan Levy Prize, which provides $250 to "the most promising actor[s] at the University." And cellist Matt Haimovitz '96 was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, which provides $1,000 to "the graduating senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance, or the visual arts."