F.Y.I.

Sheree L. Toth, associate professor and associate director of the Mt. Hope Family Center, has been nominated for the 12th annual ATHENA Award, sponsored by the Women's Council of the Greater Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce. The ATHENA Award luncheon was held at noon Jan. 22 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

G. Michael Morris, professor of optics, has been appointed chair of the Technical Council of the Optical Society of America and will serve as a member of OSA's board of directors for 1998-99.

Fred Sherman, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Wilson Professor of Biochemistry, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

James Brownell, a recent graduate student in the laboratory of biology professor David Allis, has received a 1997 Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize given for outstanding work by graduate students. Brownell was one of four winners throughout the world.

Dana Mukamel has received the 1997 James G. Zimmer Award for Excellence in Research in Aging and Disability, given by the American Public Health Association's Gerontological Health Section to honor the research of new investigators. Mukamel is the David Stewart Assistant Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine.

Two faculty members at the Eastman School have won 1997 ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards. Dave Headlam, associate professor of music theory, and Kim Kowalke, professor of musicology at Eastman and former chair of the College Music Program, were cited by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers for outstanding print and media coverage of music. Headlam wrote The Music of Alban Berg. Kowalke co-edited and translated Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya.

Clifford Smith Jr. has co-edited Derivatives Handbook--Risk Management and Control, a new book published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Smith is the Clarey Professor of Finance and Economics at the Simon School.

Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Peter Lennie and Elissa Newport have been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences.

The Memorial Art Gallery has received a $16,000 grant from Eastman Kodak Co. to fund the pilot phase of a computer studio outreach program with Rochester City School #4. The partnership is the first of its kind in Rochester.

Joseph Walton, associate professor of surgery in the Otolaryngology Division, has been awarded a grant of $50,000 from the National Institute of Aging to study the neurochemical basis of age-related changes in the central auditory nervous system.

Randall Stone, assistant professor in the political science department, has received a $24,000 advanced research grant from the Social Science Research Council for his work on the politics and economics of post-communist countries.

The Department of Medicine has awarded Mary Labanowski with the James M. Stewart Award for her contributions to teaching and for providing an important role model for physicians in training. Suzanne Schmidt received the Clinical Faculty Teaching Award from the Primary Care Program, and Richard Gangemi received the Rudolph Napodano Fellowship Award for his involvement in resident teaching. Robert Betts received the Bauman Award for excellence in teaching in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. James Haley, Robert Kerper, S. Zane Burday, John Chamberlain, Mary Labanowski, Bruce Peyser and Michael Schneider received the Lawrence A. Kohn Senior Teaching Fellowship.

Vicente Planelles, assistant professor of medical oncology and of microbiology and immunology, has received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health. The $350,000 grant supports his research into how the HIV gene "vpr" causes cells to stop proliferating. John Ludlow, associate professor of oncology in biochemistry and biophysics, is collaborating on the project.

School of Medicine and Dentistry instructor Nicki Panoskaltsis has been selected for a hematology-oncology fellowship in the Cancer Center. The fellowship is funded by a grant of $40,000 from AMGEN, a pharmaceutical company.

James Burk has received the Award for Excellence in Teaching by Part-Time Faculty at Eastman Dental Center. A 20-year member of the Eastman faculty, Burk has a private practice in Sodus.

Delores Jackson Radney, coordinator of family programs and community outreach at the Memorial Art Gallery, has been awarded the Partners of America Fellowship in International Development. She is developing a museum with the Caribbean nation of Antigua.

The Publications Unit of the Office of Public Relations has won an Award of Excellence from the University & College Design Association. Graphics coordinator Geri McCormick designed and illustrated the award-winning certificate given to University donors.

The School of Medicine and Dentistry has awarded four assistant professors with Buswell Fellowships. Recipients are Leslie Bunce, medicine; Yuhchyau Chen, radiation oncology; Robert Gross, neurology; and Carl McGary, pathology and laboratory medicine.

Valerie Florance, director of the Miner Library, has received the Ida and George Eliot Prize from the Medical Library Association. She was cited for four articles published in Academic Medicine.

Seymour Schwartz, professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, has received an honorary doctor of medicine degree from the University of Madrid in Spain.