------------------------------------------------------------ CHEERS ------------------------------------------------------------ Cheers recognizes achievement of consequence among faculty, staff and students. A separate section records some promotions and new hires. We welcome contributions submitted in writing accompanied by a telephone number. Submissions may be edited for length, clarity and content. ------------------------------------------------------------ HONORS, AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------ All Divisions The Provost's Office has announced the 1994 recipients of the Provost's Undergraduate Awards for Research and Excellence. Thirty-three students from Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Nursing and Peabody will receive up to $2,500 to fund their projects, which will occur during the summer or fall sessions. Summer award winners are Saminaz Akhter, Eduardo Carillo, Candy Chan, Charissa Chang, Eduardo Fajardo, Reem Habbak, Michael Haller, Michael Ho, Jimmy Holder, I-Hua Huang, Judy Kiang, Srikant Krishna, Andrew Lee, Stanley Lu, Jay Patel, Gary Payinda, Todd Sarge, Jon Strasser, Lois Wessel and Ronald Yap. Fall award winners are James Amendola, Lisa Blaydes, Emily Chan, Samuel Chun, Donna Cross, Paul DiCamillo, Vincent Franze, William MacKenzie, William Perlman, Suk Seo, Sanjay Shah, Bryan Young and Howard Young. APL Appointments to the Principal Professional Staff are recognition of the highest professional stature and individual achievement at APL. It is reserved for the most outstanding leaders in their technical or administrative fields. Named recently to the PPS were Valerie B. Barnes, Alan Brandt, W. Daniel Brown, Thomas B. Criss, Robert W. Farquhar, Daniel R. Fenner, Andrew C. Good, Timothy S. Herder, Sandi Holowej, Richard K. Huebschman, Edwin P. Keath, Lee D. Kennedy, Sze-Ping Kuo, Paul E. Lakomy, Kathleen A. Lane, Gregory A. Miller, John R. Moore, Kenneth W. O'Haver, Daniel G. Ondercin, David L. Porter, Jack C. Roberts, David G. Sibeck, Lawrence G. Simon, Jane M. Spicer, Joseph J. Suter, John H. Sweeney, Arthur E. Turriff, Vincent Vigliotti and John E. Whitely Jr. Senior Staff appointments are made in recognition of sustained accomplishments in the staff member's professional field of work. Senior Staff members chosen during the first half of 1994 were Clifford E. Bennett, Teresa M. Betenbaugh, Rodney G. Duley Jr., Ashruf S. El-Dinary, Thomas A. Feroli, S. Edward Hawkins III, Douglas B. Holland, Mary E. Howser, John H. Loveless, Mark R. Meyer, Kirsten L. O'Neill, David E. Perkins, John E. Pritchett, Christopher C. Rogers, Charles E. Schlemm II, Randall L. Schrickel, Patrice Moore Slert, Paul R. Snow, David R. Stark, Marvin B. Suther, Edwin B. Tompkins, Michael S. Tracey and William Wilkinson. Arts and Sciences Ian Corbyn and David Roberts, doctoral candidates in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, have received 1994 Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education. Each will receive $15,000 to support the final analysis of their research topic and the writing of the paper. History professor Orest Ranum has been elected to the Chaise Internationale, Collge de France, in Paris. He will teach there in the spring semester, 1995. Professor of philosophy Jerome B. Schneewind has been elected vice president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, the major membership organization for philosophers in the United States. Professor of psychology Julian C. Stanley has received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award in Applied Psychology for 1994. The award, offered by the American Psychological Society to only two recipients each year, acknowledges a career of significant intellectual contributions to the science of psychology in the area of applied psychological research. Dr. Stanley is the director of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, which he founded at Hopkins in 1971. Centers and Affiliates The state chapter of the Public Relations Society of America recently named WJHU-FM NOTES newsletter the best publication in the 1994 Best in Maryland Competition, newsletter category. Engineering A. Lynn Roberts, assistant professor of geography and environmental engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator's Award in support of her research. Hospital and Health System Four staff members of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jodi Barrett, Kathie Fedele, Mary Kate Fries and Jennifer Grant, made presentations at the American Physical Therapy Association National Conference in Toronto, June 4-8. Colene Y. Daniel, vice president for corporate and community services, has been named Young Executive of the Year by the National Association of Health Services Executives. A recent USA Today analysis found that Hopkins physicians accounted for a higher proportion of those named in The Best Doctors in America than doctors at any other hospital in the nation. Joann Rodgers, deputy director of the Office of Public Affairs, was re-elected president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Medicine R. Nick Bryan, professor of radiology, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the University of Marseilles in France during the 1994-95 academic year. Third-year medical student Kristine Campbell has been selected a 1994 Luce Scholar under a Luce Foundation program designed to create a higher level of understanding of Asia among young, educated Americans. Campbell will work and study for 10 months at Princeton, in Hong Kong and on Bali in Indonesia. Charles W. Cummings, Andelot Professor and director of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has been chosen president-elect of the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery for the coming year. Valina L. Dawson, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, has been named by the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association Inc. to receive a $148,486 grant to pursue her research. The Maryland Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America presented its Premier Physician Award to associate professor of surgery Ronald H. Fishbein at a dinner June 14. The evening's speaker was university president William C. Richardson. Robert Fox, Michael Gibson and Manish Sagar, juniors in the School of Medicine, have been chosen for participation in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes of Health Research Scholars Program for 1994-95. They will perform research in an NIH laboratory of their choice for a year while residing on the NIH campus. A. Edward Maumenee, professor and director emeritus of the Department of Ophthalmology, was given the Outstanding Scientific Advocate Award by the National Eye Institute at its 25th anniversary awards gala in Washington, D.C. Earl P. Steinberg, professor of medicine, has received funding from Marion Merrell Dow Inc. to pursue his proposal titled "Outcomes Research in Peptic Ulcer Disease: Impact of Policies on Outcomes of Disease." Two faculty members have received $100,000 personal awards for exemplary research efforts from the Alcon Research Institute. Ran Zeimer, professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, was recognized for research relevant to clinical problems in ophthalmology. King-Wai Yau, professor of neuroscience, was recognized for his main research effort in retinal electrophysiology. Mackenzie Walser, professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences and of medicine, was awarded the Thomas Addis Medal, the highest honor of the Internation-al Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism. Elias A. Zerhouni, professor of radiology, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Society of Magnetic Resonance, the world's leading scientific society for the application of magnetic resonance in medicine. Nursing Undergraduate student Viki Altomonte is a 1994 recipient of an Oncology Nursing Foundation/Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation Bachelor's Scholarship for $2,000. SAIS James Ketterer, a doctoral student in African Studies, has been awarded a fellowship from the National Security Education Program. He has also been awarded a fellowship from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies for the study of Arabic in Tangier, Morocco. Changing places, new faces The board of trustees made the following appointments at its May 9 meeting: In the School of Arts and Sciences, Dwaine Cowan was appointed professor emeritus of chemistry, effective Sept. 1; Delbert Hillers was appointed professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies, effective July 1; and Alex Nickon was appointed professor emeritus of chemistry, effective July 1. In the School of Public Health, Diane E. Griffin was appointed professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, effective July 1, and Martin A. Tanner was appointed professor in the Department of Biostatistics, effective July 1. Ernest L. Holmboe has been named head of the 240-member Submarine Technology Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory. L. Reuven Pasternak, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the School of Medicine, has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Bayview Medical Center. Moody D. Wharam Jr., professor in the departments of Oncology, Radiology, Neurology Surgery and Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, has been appointed director of the Division of Radiation Oncology at the Oncology Center. He has been acting director of the division since 1990. --compiled by Mike Field