Angus MacLaurin '00 set a world record in the 2-kilometer junior lightweight race at the World Indoor Rowing Championships last weekend. He went on to beat his own record later in the day. He set a record in a morning heat with a time of 6:19.30, and broke it in the afernoon with a time of 6:17.90.

The competition was held at Roxbury Community College in Boston.

Kenneth Trevett has been named chief operating officer and general counsel of the Harvard-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute, the first person to hold this position. Trevett oversees the day-to-day administrative and legal operations of the Institute, the largest independent eye research organization in the country.

Trevett has worked with biomedical research institutions for the last 17 years, serving as assistant dean for administration at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, assistant to the director and house counsel at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and as general counsel for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Immediately prior to joining Schepens, he was in private law practice, specializing in technology transfer matters.

Lowell E. Lindgren, professor of music at M.I.T., has won the 1996-97 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. Established in 1986 during Vosgerchian's tenure as the Walter W. Naumburg Professorship of Music, the prize seeks to bring outstanding teachers here from anywhere in the world to give guest lectures or master classes. Recipients are chosen with an eye toward the exceptional talents and values of one of Harvard's best-loved teachers (now the Naumburg Professor Emerita).

As the sixth Vosgerchian Award recipient, Lindgren will give a guest lecture here in 1997-98. At M.I.T., he also recently won the Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow Award "for sustained and significant contribution to teaching and undergraduate education."

Lindgren earned his B.A. (summa cum laude) and M.F.A. (Piano) degrees at the University of Minnesota and came to Harvard for an A.M. (1969) and Ph.D. (1972) in musicology. He also served as a resident tutor in Kirkland House and left Harvard in 1979 as an associate professor. Much of his scholarship has focused on 17th- and 18th-century Italian opera, and he has earned an international reputation for his studies of Handel's enormous body of dramatic works.