Newsmakers

Gilligan, Wilson named in Time magazine cover story

Time magazine has named "America's 25 Most Influential People" in an issue due to hit the stands next week. Among the roster are Carol Gilligan, professor of education, and Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor and Mellon Professor of the Sciences.

Gilligan was cited for her 1982 landmark book, In a Different Voice. In that book and five subsequent works, she examines the differences in the way boys and girls develop their moral faculties and world views.

Wilson, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, is a biological theorist who has studied ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity.

Four Selected for Science "Hall of Fame"

Four faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, an association of the world's top-ranked scientists and engineers.

The honors go to Thaddeus Dryja, David Glendenning Cogan Professor of Ophthalmology at the Medical School and a surgeon at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Elliott Kieff, Harold Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine and director of infectious disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Timothy Springer, Latham Family Professor of Pathology and vice president of the Center for Blood Research, and Clifford Taubes, professor of mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

They are among 60 members selected this year, and their induction into the Academy next year will raise its membership to 1,760.

Negus wins young investigators award at McLean

S. Stevens Negus, assistant professor of psychiatry (neuroscience) at the Medical School and associate research pharmacologist for the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, was presented with the Fifth Annual Alfred Pope Award for Young Investigators.

Negus, director of the neurobiology program in the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean, is being recognized for his work titled "The Role of Delta Opioid Receptors in the Reinforcing and Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Cocaine in Rhesus Monkeys."

Alfred Pope has been on the staff at McLean for 50 years and the award is presented in his honor to a McLean researcher every year. A prize of $500 accompanies the award.

Oldest grad reminisces at Commencement ceremonies

On Commencement afternoon, Joseph Goldstein, 101, of Brookline, the oldest Harvard alumnus in attendance, sat in his wheelchair before the start of the alumni parade, along with a semicircle of other Harvard and Radcliffe graduates from the early part of the century. He wore a crimson-striped Class of 1918 tie -- which he bought the year he graduated. (He said it recently resurfaced.)

Goldstein said he has attended almost every reunion and many Commencements in between. He earned a degree in chemistry but took classes in geology, anthropology, crystallography, and other subjects. "I wish I could have taken more," he said.

Reede of HMS wins award for training program for minorities, women

Joan Reede, assistant dean for faculty development and diversity and director of the Minority Faculty Development Program for the Medical School, has won the American Association of University Administrators 1996 Exemplary Models of Administrative Leadership Awards and John L. Blackburn Award.

The award is given to those who represent an outstanding example of academic leadership and demonstrate creative solutions to common problems in higher education. Reede will receive the award and give a presentation on June 24 at the AAUA National Assembly.

The all-encompassing program Reede has developed begins at the high school level and carries through university, medical school, residency training, and postgraduate training and aims at aiding underrepresented minority persons and women. Reede single-handedly conceived of virtually all of the programs and solicited funds from a variety of sources to support the projects.

Reede has been recognized by the Boston NAACP for her contributions to the health of the Boston minority community, and has been featured in Boston magazine in an article "Faces and Names to Watch 1993."

Miles to leave Divinity School for Theological Union in Berkeley

Margaret R. Miles, Bussey Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, will become dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., effective July 1. She has been a member of the Faculty of Divinity since 1978, and became the Divinity School's first tenured woman in 1985. An authority on Augustine and on early and medieval church history, she helped to establish a doctoral program in religion, gender, and culture at the Divinity School. She has been the recipient of many honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her books include Image as Insight, Carnal Knowing, and, most recently, Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies.

Alzheimer's researcher's work cited in Commencement speech

In his Commencement Address, Commencement Speaker and director of the National Institutes of Health Harold Varmus cited the work of Alzheimer's disease researcher Daniel Pollen, professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Pollen happens to be a Harvard College graduate (1956) and a member of the Harvard Medical School Class of 1960

The work that Varmus mentioned is documented in Pollen's book, Hannah's Heirs: The Quest for the Genetic Origins of Alzheimer's Disease (Oxford University Press), which was just released in an updated paperback edition this month.

Music composition student named winner in BMI composers competition

Brian C. Hulse, a Ph.D. student in music composition, has been named one of 10 winners in the 44th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards.

Hulse holds a degree in composition from the University of Utah and a degree in choral conducting from the University of Illinois. Hulse has conducted the Utah Composers Ensemble, and choirs at both the University of Utah and the University of Illinois. He has received commissions, including one from the University of Utah Classical Greek Theater Festival.

His BMI award-winning work is "In Darkness Discerned," for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The work was recently premiered in Boston by Speculum Musicae.

New chair named to McLean Hospital board

Charles D. Baker '49 ('51), MBA '55, professor of business administration at Northeastern University, has been appointed chairman of the board of Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital.

"Over the years, Charlie Baker has demonstrated a deep understanding of the importance of McLean to the patients and families that rely on us for care," said Steven Mirin, McLean's chief executive officer and psychiatrist-in-chief. "His leadership and commitment will be enormously important to us as we face the challenges before us and plan for the future."

Art-history prize presentation takes place at Villa I Tatti

The Mongan Prize, established by Melvin Seiden '52, LLB '55, in honor of Agnes and Elizabeth Mongan, was awarded last week to Ernst Gombrich, former director of the Warburg Institute and professor emeritus of the history of the classical tradition in the University of London. The I Tatti Mongan Prize was presented at a ceremony at Villa I Tatti, Harvard's Center for Italian Renaissance Studies based in Florence, Italy.

Gombrich's bibliography includes The Story of Art (1950; 15th edition, 1989) and Art and Illusion (1960). He has received dozens of honorary awards, including the Order of Merit bestowed on him by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.

The prize is "awarded from time to time, at the discretion of the Prize Committee, to honor a distinguished scholar in the history of art."

University Publisher's Corr gives talk at industry conference

Charles Corr, associate director for operations at the Office of the University Publisher, presented his perspective, and Harvard's experience, on "Trends in Distributed Print On Demand" at the On Demand Digital Printing and Publishing Strategy Conference and Exposition, held recently in New York City.

This is the second year Corr has been a speaker at this premier industry event.

The various methods currently used to provide network print at Harvard as well as the challenges and opportunities of technology were highlighted by Corr.

"The University and the Document" was the topic at an international seminar organized by the University of Alcala de Henares and Rank Xerox. This meeting of representatives from Southern European colleges and universities was held in April outside Madrid, Spain. Corr discussed Harvard's experience with new digital printing technologies in an era of administrative cost containment. His presentation provided insight on Harvard's ETOB ("every tub on its own bottom") approach to meeting client requirements.