13 named new fellows at American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Thirteen men and women from the Harvard community have been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are:

Biological Sciences: Richard Losick, Peter Howley, Robert R. Rando, Laurie Glimcher, Thomas Stossel, and Nicholas Zervas;

Social Arts and Sciences: Daniel Schacter, James Watson, Jeffrey Sachs, Paul Peterson, Michael Jensen, and Albert Carnesale;

Humanities: William Moran.

The Academy, founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic, was created as a learned society to bring together the country's leading figures to exchange ideas and promote knowledge for the public interest.

The new fellows will be formally inducted in ceremonies on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Academy in Cambridge.

Senior named to Glamour magazine Top Ten

Srishti Gupta '97 was selected as one of Glamour magazine's Top Ten College Women for 1996. Gupta was chosen for her outstanding scholastic and personal achievements as well as her contributions to her school and community.

Gupta is majoring in biochemical sciences and hopes to earn both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology and to research infectious diseases. The results of research she has worked on have been published in two national medical journals, and she is the director of Experiments, a program that brings college science students to local high schools as guest teachers.

Gupta is profiled in the magazine's October issue. The winners were selected by a panel of judges who review more than 1,000 applicants each year.

Four graduate students win Sawyer Fellowships

The Center for International Affairs awarded Sawyer Fellowships to four Harvard graduate students. They will participate in the Sawyer Seminar on the Performance of Democracies, which, funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, focuses on the challenges and problems of democracy in countries with established, new, or evolving democratic systems. Marshall Ganz (sociology) will research the organization of social movements in relation to U.S. electoral politics. John Glenn (sociology) will study the comparison of Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution" and the Solidarity movement in its final stages before the round table negotiations. Karissa Price (government) is researching the politics of economic decision making, focusing on Indonesian and Venezuelan economic policymaking during the 1970s and '80s. Joshua Tucker (government) will examine the relationship between elections and economic reform in post-Communist Europe.