The Johns Hopkins Gazette: February 17, 1998
Feb. 17, 1998
VOL. 27, NO. 22

  

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Applied Physics Laboratory
Gary L. Smith, director of APL, is the first to receive the award named after him. The Dr. Gary L. Smith S.E.E.C. [science, engineering, education and community] Award is to be given each year to an individual or organization in recognition of "extraordinary contributions and commitment to Woodlawn High School students in the areas of science and engineering," according to Curtis Jones, physics teacher and coodinator of the Maryland MESA [mathematics, engineering, science achievement] Program at Woodlawn. In addition to supporting and administering the Maryland MESA Program at Woodlawn, APL mentors its students in yearlong academic programs at the Laboratory and provides scientific expertise to help with school projects.

Arts and Sciences
David Gerdes, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been elected chairman of the Users' Executive Committee at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The 12-member committee oversees many issues for the approximately 2,000 scientists working at Fermilab. Gerdes is working to upgrade a critical piece of equipment at Fermilab, which is the highest-energy facility in the world for particle physics research. The committee deals with a broad spectrum of issues that are of concern to physicists, issues ranging from technical matters to educational workshops and quality of life at the lab.

Engineering
Charles R. O'Melia is to be named the Abel Wolman Professor in Environmental Engineering, in the School of Engineering, effective July 1.

Homewood Student Affairs
Karen Yanson, co-principal flautist and a board member of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, has been named a winner of the 1997 Becton Dickinson Community Service Awards, given by her employer. The orchestra will receive a $500 grant, one of 12 the company is making to honor its volunteers.

Medicine
    Patricia M.C. Brown has been named Johns Hopkins Medicine's first senior director of managed care. A former assistant attorney general for Maryland and past president of the Maryland State Bar Association's Health Care Law Section Council, Brown has served as the health system's senior legal counsel for patient care advice and regulatory issues since 1994.
    James F. Casella has been promoted to professor in the Department of Pediatrics.
    Arlene A. Forastiere has been promoted to professor in the Department of Oncology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
    David A. Kass has been promoted to professor in the Department of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering.
    Michael B. Kastan has been promoted to professor in the Department of Oncology with a secondary appointment in Pediatrics.
    Louis R. Kavoussi has been promoted to professor in the Department of Urology.
    Sangram S. Sisodia has been promoted to professor in the Department of Pathology with a secondard appointment in Neuroscience.
    Mark F. Teaford has been promoted to professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy.
    Thomas A. Traill has been promoted to professor in the Department of Medicine.
    Robert A. Wise has been promoted to professor in the Department of Medicine.

Peabody
Linda Grass Shapiro, volunteer program director for the Arts for Talented Youth Program of the Peabody Preparatory, received the Robert L. Payton Award for Volunteer Service from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

SAIS
Andrew Bacevich, executive director of the Foreign Policy Institute, was named recipient of the 1998 Moncado Prize by the Society of Military History. The prize is awarded in recognition of scholarship, presentation and originality in research that makes a significant contribution to the field of military history. The award will be presented at the Society of Military History's annual conference in April.


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