May 13, 1999
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American Philosophical Society Elects New Members
The American Philosophical Society elected 38 resident members and 9 foreign members at its Annual General Meeting in Philadelphia last month. The new members from Harvard include:

Mary Maples Dunn,Pforzheimer Foundation Director, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library; M. Judah Folkman, Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery and professor of anatomy and cellular biology, Medical School; Patricia Albjerg Graham, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education; Oscar Handlin, professor of history; David G. Nathan, president, Dana- Farber Cancer Institute, and Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, and professor of pediatrics, Medical School; Hilary Putnam, Walter B. Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic and Modern Math; and Evon Z. Vogt Jr., professor of anthropology emeritus, and honorary curator of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum.

Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.

Daniel Bell Gives Keynote Address at Suntory Anniversary
Daniel Bell, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science Emeritus, was one of the keynote speakers at the symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Suntory Foundation in Tokyo last month.

The theme of the symposium was the role of the Commitee on Intellectual Correspondence, an organization that Bell helped create to foster international intellectual exchange.

The Suntory Foundation, which is the main sponsor of the Committee on Intellectual Correspondence, is one of the leading cultural foundations in Japan. Bell has been a director of the Foundation for 17 years.

Minority Medical Students Present Research at Symposium
Erica Marsh, Yashika Dooley, and Alfredo Quinones- Hinojosa, all Medical School students, presented their biomedical research projects during the annual symposium of the Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students. The symposium, which featured presentations by 32 of the nation's most gifted minority medical students, is the largest annual gathering of its kind in the United States. The event took place earlier this spring at the headquarters of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, N.J.

 


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