Gandolfi's Music Featured in Festival

Visiting Lecturer on Music Michael Gandolfi is among the nearly two dozen American composers whose music will be heard at Bowling Green State University's 18th Annual New Music & Art Festival, held this week. This year's special guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and conductor Bernard Rands.

Hedley-Whyte, Warfield Receive Awards

John Hedley-Whyte, David S. Sheridan Professor of Anaesthesia and Respiratory Therapy and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health (SPH), and Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anaesthesia at the Medical School, received awards at the Eleventh Annual Health Mart meeting held in Boston last month.

These awards, given by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, recognized "knowledge and leadership in using traditional and state-of-the-art techniques to promote effective communication of health information directly to consumers." The information communicated was published in papers on the management and outcome of the treatment of lower back pain in Massachusetts. These papers resulted from discussions in the interfaculty Technology Assessment Group, under the leadership of Frederick Mosteller, professor of mathematical statistics emeritus, and the secretaryship of Debra R. Milamed, associate in anaesthesia at the Medical School.

LeVine Given Distinguished Contribution Award

Robert A. LeVine, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development at the Graduate School of Education and professor of anthropology at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), was awarded the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Distinguished Contribution Award in Psychological

Anthropology at their biennial meeting in San Diego last week.

A division of the American Anthropological Association, the Society has presented this award only twice before -- to John and Beatrice Whiting of FAS and the Graduate School of Education in 1989, and to Melford Spiro of the University of California, San Diego, in 1991.