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BULLETIN
Dean Requests Nominations for Community Service AwardsDean Joseph Martin invites nominations for the second annual HMS/HSDM Dean's Community Service Awards. Honoring community service as an integral part of the academic mission at the Medical and Dental Schools, the award recognizes and encourages participation in community service activities and programs. Faculty, staff, trainees, and students are eligible for the award, with a recipient to be chosen from each category. In addition to being recognized during the Ebert Community Service Day celebration, each awardee's community service program will receive a check for $1,000. For more information and a nomination form, please contact SueJeanne Koh at 432-6131 or e-mail suejeanne_koh@hms.harvard.edu. Forms can also be downloaded and completed electronically at www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/outreach.
Appointments to Full And Endowed ProfessorshipsThese faculty members were appointed to a full professorship in December and January.
James Connolly
Robert Krane
Yoshihiro Nakatani These full professors were appointed to an endowed chair in January.
Melvin Clouse
Thomas Thornhill
Freeman Hrabowski (above), president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC), addressed the need to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing advanced degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics at a program on January 18, part of the Harvard Medicine at the Millennium series. Cofounder of the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program at UMBC, a national model for promoting the pursuit of PhDs among minority students in the sciences, Hrabowski is the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in recognition of the program. Four Meyerhoff scholars, Alvin May, HMS-I; Brian Turner, HMS-I; Ryan Turner, HMS-I; and Andrew Atiemo, HMS-IV, paid tribute to their former mentor and commented on what they believe contributes to the program's success. At the event, Alvin Poussaint, clinical professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean for student affairs at HMS, was recognized with the Dean's Millennial Award for Distinguished Service for Diversity, for the work he has done to increase multicultural awareness at HMS.
HSPH will hold its 14th Annual Poster and Exhibit Day on March 9 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Kresge Building cafeteria. Students and faculty will display their current research on disease prevention, health policy, environmental health, cancer biology, nutrition, health behavior, and other topics of research being conducted at HSPH.
The day is a chance to share work not only with other members of the HSPH community, but also the larger Harvard community. For those wishing to exhibit their research, registration must be received by February 24. For more information or to register on-line, visit the event website at www.hsph.harvard.edu/posterday/info.html.
The HMS Faculty Fellowship Committee is accepting nominations for postdoctoral and faculty fellowships and grants offered by more than 50 private foundations. HMS has been invited to select a limited number of individuals for each award, who will represent Harvard in the national competitions. The deadline for nominations is April 10. The Red Book, the list of fellowships and grants, is on-line at www.hms.harvard.edu/fa/fellowship.htm. Hard copies can be viewed in the offices of department or division heads, women's career offices, the Center of Excellence in Women's Health, offices of research affairs, the dean's office for faculty development and diversity, and the dean's office for faculty affairs. For more information, contact Roslyn Orkin at 432-3579 or e-mail roslyn_orkin@hms.harvard.edu.
Anne Bell, psychiatrist and HMS lecturer in psychiatry at the Brockton Veterans Administration Hospital, died Jan. 24 at the age of 69.
Bell had taught at HMS since 1978. Before that, she was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. At the Brockton Veterans Administration Hospital she chaired the psychiatry peer review committee, was a coordinator for acute inpatient psychiatry and quality assurance/improvement for psychiatry services, and a psychiatrist for the behavior therapy and ambulatory care units.
During her career, which included private practice, Bell served in several administrative positions, including director of the Dorchester Mental Health Clinic and director of the acute inpatient service at Franklin Mental Health Center.
A fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Bell was honored in 1988 with the Congressional Black Caucus Veteran's Braintrust Award for national and community service in support of African American veterans.
She was a member of the National Medical Association, the Black Psychiatrists' Forum of Boston, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.
Bell leaves her husband, Fred; two sons, Frederick of New York and Stephen of Maryland; three daughters, Patricia Lemaine of Quincy, Sandra Calhoun of Billerica, and Karen of New York; a brother, John Murray of Sharon; and three grandchildren.
Nancy Andrews, director of the MD–PhD program at HMS, will receive the Outstanding Investigator Award in Basic Science for 2000 from the American Federation for Medical Research Foundation. She will accept the $10,000 award at Experimental Biology 2000 in San Diego on April 16, where she will give a presentation on her research.
Later this month, the American Heart Association will present its annual Drake Award to Victor Dzau, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dzau will receive the award and be the keynote speaker at the association's 50th annual scientific session in Rockport, Maine.
In December, the American Public Health Association honored Frank Speizer, the Edward H. Kass professor of medicine at the Channing Laboratory and HSPH professor of environmental science, with its 1999 Presidential Citation at its annual meeting in Chicago. Speizer was recognized for his 40 years of research on the epidemiology and understanding of risk factors for the development of chronic diseases.
The National Space Biomedical Research Initiative (NSBRI), a nonprofit consortium of research institutions, is accepting proposals for space-related biomedical research projects in four areas: integrated human function; nutrition, physical fitness, and rehabilitation; neurobehavioral and psychosocial factors; and smart medical systems. NSBRI research seeks solutions to the various health concerns associated with long-duration human space exploration. Letters of intent are due by March 17, and the deadline for proposal submissions is May 5. More information is available at www.nsbri.com/nsbri/nra/nra.cfm or by calling 713-798-7412.
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation recently donated $1 million to the HMS Hearst Fund, which awards grants to members of the Faculty of Medicine to support research in pre- and peri-natal medicine, with particular emphasis on those factors important for the prevention of neuromotor disabilities. The award amount was recently increased from $15,000 to $25,000. The Hearst Fund was established at HMS in honor of Isabelle and Leonard Goldenson and Ethel and Jack Hausman.
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