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Eduardo R. Macagno, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been named to a 15-member panel to examine the peer-review system of the National Institutes of Health. Panelists will look into the study sections that evaluate and score most of the grant applications submitted to the N.I.H. The Columbia University Press welcomes Holly Hodder to its editorial ranks on Mar. 30. Hodder joins the Press as publisher for the sciences with the responsibility of developing general-audience as well as scholarly science books. Previously, she was a senior editor at W.H. Freeman, a subsidiary of Scientific American. David T.W. Chiu, Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Clinical Reconstructive Surgery, has been elected president of the New York Regional Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and president of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. Robert Lindsay, professor of clinical medicine and chief of internal medicine at Helen Hayes Hospital in Nyack, N.Y., a Columbia affiliate, has received the Frederick C. Bartter Award for outstanding achievements in clinical investigation in disorders of bone and mineral metabolism. Lindsay is a founder and current president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Three Columbia Journalism School students have won $1,000 scholarships from the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Suchita Nayar, Damien Cave and David Livingstone each submitted essays on domestic violence among the South Asian community in New York and in Lebanon. Columbia was the only school to have three winners.
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