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Sears Prizes Awarded to Five Law School Students

The Law School has awarded the Joshua Montgomery Sears Jr. Prize for academic achievement to five students. The prizes are awarded annually, one to each of the two students receiving the highest averages in the work of the first year, and one to each of the two students receiving the highest averages in the work of the second year.

Law School Class of 2000 members John M. Golden and (tied for second) Michael E. Leiter and Janice A. Liu received the prizes for work in the first year. Class of 1999 members Paul Wayne Decker and Julian W. Poon received the prizes for work in the second year.

The School established the Sears Prize in 1912 with support from Sarah C. Sears in memory of her son, Joshua Montgomery Sears Jr., Class of 1904.

Brinkmann Wins Humboldt Prize; Will Spend Year in Germany

Reinhold Brinkmann, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, was awarded the Humboldt Prize for Scholars in the Humanities. Upon invitation by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he will spend a year in Germany conducting research on "Music and the National Socialist Ideology." Brinkmann will also be affiliated with Humboldt University.

Latham Elected Vice President of Massachusetts Medical Society

Virginia T. Latham, clinical instructor in medicine at the Medical School, was elected vice president of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) at the organization's annual meeting. She will serve a one-year term. MMS, the statewide membership organization for physicians and medical students, is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country with 17,000 physicians and student members.

Latham practices internal medicine in Concord, Mass.

Latham's husband is David Latham, senior lecturer on astronomy at Harvard.

Walker Receives Award for Achievement in Clinical Nutrition Research

W. Allan Walker, Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics at the Medical School and chief of the Combined Program in Pediatric Gastroenterology and nutrition research at Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been awarded the 1998 Hugh R. Butt Award for Distinguished Achievement in Clinical Nutrition by the American Gastroenterological Association in conjunction with the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Foundation.

Walker is director of the newly established Division of Nutrition at the Medical School.