Michael J. Sandel, professor of government, has been named to the Advisory Panel for the National Constitution Center, a foundation established by Congress to build a museum of the U.S. Constitution.

The museum, which is being designed by architect Harry Cobb of Pei Cobb and Freed, will be built in Philadelphia on the mall facing Independence Hall. The Advisory Panel is chaired by Brown University historian Gordon Wood, and includes Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia.

Henry Lie, director of conservation and conservator of objects and sculpture at the University Art Museums, was awarded a Paired Research Fellowship with Carol Mattusch of George Mason University, by the Center of Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. Together they conducted technical studies of 61 bronzes from the Villa dei Papiri in the National Archeological Museum in Naples in November and studied the X-radiographs and analytical data for this project during a two- month residency at the National Gallery.

Robert Schiestl, associate professor of toxicology in the Department of Cancer Cell Biology in the School of Public Health, has received the 1998 Novartis Award (formerly known as the Sandoz Award). The award honors outstanding scientific achievements in the disciplines of biology, medicine, and chemistry. The award carries an honorarium of $8,500.

Schiestl has made fundamental contributions to understanding genetic recombination in yeast and has applied these findings to the development of methods for monitoring genome rearrangements induced by environmental chemicals in a variety of in vitro systems and intact mammalian organisms.

The vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, England, has announced that the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, has been appointed Select Preacher to the University. Gomes will deliver the University Sermon in Great St. Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge, on Feb. 6, 2000. Gomes is an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.