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news and notes … news and notes … news andGSAS ALUMNUS ABIZAID INCHARGE IN IRAQLt. Gen. John Abizaid,AM ’81, Middle Eaststudies, took over USCentral Command inIraq in July 2003. Hisdecorations include theDistinguished ServiceMedal, the Legion ofMerit with five Oak LeafClusters, and the BronzeLt. Gen. John AbizaidStar. He is a graduate ofWest Point and commanded divisions in toursin Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Persian Gulf War.Courtesy of KRTHARVARD CHEMIST WINS KYOTOPRIZEIn June 2003, George Whitesides, MallinckrodtProfessor of Chemistry, was named awinner of the 19th Annual Kyoto Prize. Theprizes, sponsored by theInamori Foundation,Professor GeorgeWhitesidesHarvard News Officehonor “the pursuit ofpeace and betterment ofsociety through a balanceof technology andhumanity.”Whitesides is a pioneerin the field ofbioengineering and isengaged in the emergingfield of nanotechnology.Laureates will receive a diploma, a Kyoto PrizeMedal, and approximately $400,000 at a ceremonyto be held in Japan in November 2003.PRIESTLEY MEDAL TOCHEMISTRY’S COREYE.J. Corey, Sheldon Emery Professor ofChemistry, will receive the 2004 PriestleyMedal for Distinguished Service to Chemistry,the highest honor presented by the AmericanChemical Society. Corey, who has been on theHarvard faculty since 1959, won the NobelPrize in Chemistry in 1990.He is best known for developing theprocess of retrosynthetic analysis, used tomanufacture synthetic cellular “targets” foruse in chemical and biological research.Corey’s later work has focused on creatinganti-cancer compounds and on the use ofcomputers in organic chemistry.BIOLOGIST COLLIER HONOREDFOR WORK IN INFECTIOUSDISEASES RESEARCHJohn Collier, PhD ’64, cellular and developmentalbiology, won the annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for DistinguishedAchievement in InfectiousDiseases Researchin July 2003. Collier,Maude and LillianPresley Professor ofMicrobiology and MolecularGenetics atHarvard Medical School,was recognized for“contributions to ourProfessor John Collierunderstanding of themolecular mechanisms by which bacteriacause disease,” according to a HarvardMedical School statement.Collier, a Harvard faculty member since1984, is an authority on anthrax and otherbiological toxins; he has also shown howimmunotoxins may fight cancer. The awardbrings a $50,000 cash prize and a commemorativemedallion.Professor StanleyHoffmannPam MurrayJane Reed/ Harvard News Office2003 EUSA LIFETIMECONTRIBUTION AWARD TOHOFFMANNThe European Union Studies Association(EUSA) awarded its 2003 LifetimeContribution Award in EU Studies to StanleyHoffmann, Paul andCatherine ButtenwieserUniversity Professor inHarvard’s governmentdepartment.“Without Hoffmann’swisdom and science,Europeans and Americanswould not knowand understand eachother nearly as well asthey now do,” said MartinA. Schain, EUSA chair, in a statement. Hoffmann’smost recent book is World Disorders:Troubled Peace in the Post–Cold War Era (Rowman& Littlefield, 1998).PEN USA LITERARY AWARDRECOGNIZES ALUMNUS ELLSBERGThe book Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam andthe Pentagon Papers (Viking, 2002) byDaniel Ellsberg, AB ’52, PhD ’63, economics,won the PEN USA prizefor creative nonfiction inJuly 2003. PEN USA honors“outstanding workspublished or produced bywriters living in the westernUnited States.” In thebook, Ellsberg recountshis transformation froman early-1960s ColdDaniel EllsbergWarrior governmentanalyst to the anti-war activist who leaked thePentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971.Jock McDonaldRADCLIFFE FELLOWSANNOUNCEDThe Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studywill sponsor 56 fellows for 2003–04,selected from more than 700 applicants.Among the new fellows is Caroline Elkins,PhD ’01, history, and assistant professor ofhistory at Harvard. Professor Elkins will writea book on the Mau Mau crisis, the 1950s anticolonialrebellion in Kenya.Katharine Park, PhD ’81, history of science,Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris ZemurrayStone Radcliffe Professor of the History ofScience and of Women's Studies at Harvard,will complete her book Visible Women: Gender,Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection.Harvard Professor of Government JenniferHochschild will write on Madison’s vision ofAmerica and how identity politics informedthat vision. Susan Moller Okin, PhD ’75, government,Marta Sutton Weeks Professor ofEthics in Society in the Stanford UniversityDepartment of Political Science, will studyhow “neglect of gender in economic development… has distorted and retarded the promotionof women’s human rights in recentdecades.”Colloquy 13 Fall 2003