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The University Trustees, at their December meeting, approved the following appointments to named professorships: Haruo Shirane as Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature; Lance Liebman as William S. Beinecke Professor of Law, and Trevor S. Harris as Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business.
Revelation Restored, a book by David Weiss Halivni, Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization, has won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Thought. The awards are the oldest and most prestigious in the field of American Jewish literature. Virologist and molecular biologist Carol L. Prives has been awarded an American Cancer Society Research Professorship. Only 25 such awards are held at any one time, and only two new awards are made each year. Prives will receive $300,000 from 1998 to 2002 from the society to support her research.
Olga Ragusa, Da Ponte Professor of Italian Emerita, has been given the distinction of "Ufficiale" in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the President of Italy. From 1973 to her retirement in 1992, Ragusa, '54 GSAS, chaired the department of Italian. Also, Teodolinda Barolini, professor of Italian and chair of the department, has been elected 16th president of the Dante Society of America. Richard Mayeux, Gertrude Sergievsky Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and professor in public health, was honored recently at the 13th annual Rita Hayworth Gala. Also, Mayeux recently gave the Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Clinical Sciences at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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