Fox Selected for Kellogg Leadership Program

Kenneth Fox Jr., an instructor in social medicine at the Medical School and a pediatrician, is one of 38 people selected by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for its Kellogg National Leadership Program.

The Program helps expand the nation's pool of capable leaders by increasing individuals' skills and insights into areas outside their chosen disciplines, which will allow them to more creatively and effectively address society's challenges.

Fox is the project director of a medical anthropology project called "Culture, Ethnicity, and Health Care: Bridges and Barriers to Health Care in a Multicultural United States."

McLean Hospital Awarded $2.7M Grant for Drug Study

McLean Hospital has won a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to evaluate new strategies for anti-cocaine medications in a study that will identify the most safe and effective medication for cocaine-abuse treatment, and suggest the basic mechanisms of its anti-cocaine actions. Nancy Mello, professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry (Neuroscience), is the principal investigator and co-director of McLean's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center. McLean Hospital will collaborate with other research institutions in this multi-center study.

Budiansky To Receive ASME Medal

Bernard Budiansky, Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics Emeritus and the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering Emeritus, has been selected to receive the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Medal for "eminently distinguished achievements and individual contributions which have led to the understanding of the connection between the macroscopic mechanical behavior of materials and its microstructure and microstructural rearrangements.

Budiansky has helped form the foundation of micromechanics. His work has been applied in the aerospace and automobile manufacturing industries.