University Professor Eric R. Kandel has been named winner of one of the 12th annual Charles A. Dana Awards for pioneering achievements in health and education. He will share the $50,000 award with Paul Greengard for "fundamental discoveries in synaptic function—truly singular research that has significant implications in the study of learning and memory and the mechanisms of disease, with profound impact on helping us to understand how the brain works, that will ultimately change our lives."
Siu-Wai Chan, professor in the Materials Science Division of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, was honored by the Association for Women in Science, New York Metropolitan Chapter. The reception was held Wed., Nov. 12, at the American Association of University Women on East 37th Street.
Daniel F. Heitjan, associate professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health, was recently elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association at its Joint Statistical Meetings in Anaheim, Calf. Heitjan was cited for "important research on statistical methods for missing and coarse data; for excellent collaboration and teaching in medicine, and for editorial service in statistics and medicine." He is an expert in cancer biostatistics, clinical trials, cardiothoracic surgery, biostatistical methods, incomplete data, study design and analysis, analysis of health outcomes and longitudinal studies.
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Hugh J. Kelly, CC '26, has given the Merton Lecture a matching gift to help fund the lecture's endowment, established in 1995. The lecture is an annual talk sponsored by Columbia's Catholic chapliancy and its alumni association, the Father Ford Associates. The Hugh J. and Catherine R. Kelly Endowment is named for the former McGraw-Hill executive and his late wife. The lecture, given since 1978, is named for the celebrated Trappist monk who converted to Catholicism while a student at Columbia in the 1930's. This year's lecture, to be delivered on Wed., Nov. 19, in St. Paul's Chapel, will be given by Sister Helen Prejean, whose topic is "Dead Men Walking: The Journey," named after her book which later was made into a motion picture. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lawrence Rosen, adjunct professor of law, has been named a Phi Beta Kappa visiting professor for 1997-98. As an anthropologist, his research has been mainly in North Africa and the Muslim world; as a lawyer, he has worked on various American Indian legal cases. As a Phi Beta Kappa scholar, this year he will visit ten institutions, spending two days at each, meeting with faculty and students and giving a lecture.
