William DeJong, lecturer on health communication, was named to the Advisory Council of College Parents of America. He was the commencement speaker this past May at St. Francis University in Joliet, Illinois. DeJong and Jay Winsten, director for the Center for Health Communication, have coauthored the book, The Media and the Message: Lessons Learned from Past Public Service Campaigns.

Richard D. Gelber, professor of biostatistics, received $300,000 from the National Cancer Institute to support the International Breast Cancer Study Group statistical center and $150,000 from the American Cancer Society to fund his research on the Q-TWIST methodology. Gelber was the guest editor for a special issue in March of Statistics in Medicine and served as cochair of the St. Gallen (Switzerland) Adjuvant Breast Cancer Conference this past February.

John D. Graham, professor of policy and decision sciences and director of the Center for Risk Analysis, received the 1998 Public Service Award from the Annapolis Center for achievements in risk communication to the American people. He was also the recipient of a $171,832 grant from the National Association of Home Builders for the development and estimation of an affordability/risk model.

David Hemenway, professor of health policy and management, received his ninth teaching award in the past 13 years. He was also the recipient of a $246,000 grant as a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator in Health Policy Research; a $1,500,000 grant from the CDC as the Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center; and a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship.

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, assistant professor of nutrition, spoke at the Eighth International Congress on Obesity in Paris. Hotamisligil recently received a NIH grant of $558,277 for his project, "TNF" Receptor Function in Insulin Resistance and Obesity," and another grant of $863,042 for his project, "Leptin, Cytokines and Insulin Resistance."

Howard Hu, associate professor of occupational medicine, receive a grant of $2,027,050 from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the impact of chronic lead absorption on reproduction and infant outcomes among women in Mexico City over the next five years. He also was named the medical editor of Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of NIEHS.

Camara Phyllis Jones, assistant professor of health and social behavior and epidemiology, received the 1999 Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy, administered by the Commonwealth Fund. The fellowship funds nine months of work in New Zealand. Jones will research government policies and race relations in the island country, and what the consequences have been for Maori health. See also: Camara Jones to Study in New Zealand.

Nancy Krieger, associate professor of health and social behavior, received a $2,040,089 grant from NIH for her work in "area-based measurers and social class for health research." Krieger and Sally Zierler, visiting scholar in epidemiology, received $464,312 from NIH for their work in epidemiology and violence and ovarian function.

Guy Reed, associate professor of cardiovascular biology, was the recipient of the Established Investigator Award of the American Heart Association. He also received from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grants of $640,000 for his work in defining the mechanisms that prevent blood clots from dissolving and $1.4 million for studying molecular mechanisms that are responsible for activating the plasminogen system.

Lorenz Rhomberg, associate professor of risk analysis and environmental health, was named to the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Manufactured Vitreous Fibers Health Risks. He was also awarded $77,000 by the National Research Council for his project, "Risk Assessment Framework for Protection of the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces."

Robert H. Schiestl, associate professor of toxicology, coauthored an article, "Cigarette Smoke Induces DNA Deletions in the Mouse Embryo," which was published in Cancer Research, June 15, 1998.

Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health, was profiled in the June issue of Scientific American.

Fredrick J. Stare, distinguished professor emeritus, recently coauthored with Elizabeth Whelan, SM '68, SD '71, the book Fad-Free Nutrition.

Ming T. Tsuang, professor of psychiatric epidemiology, received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and $100,000 for his project, "Children of Schizophrenia Patients: A Pilot MRI Study to Study High-Risk Children."

Henry Wechsler, lecturer on social psychology, received a grant of $494,990 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for 21-month support of the dissemination of the findings from the second phase of his college drinking study.

Milton Weinstein, Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management, was the recipient of the 1997 Award for Distinguished Service from the Society for Medical Decision Making. He was also the recipient of a grant from the National Cancer Institute for his study, "The Cost-Effectiveness of Lung Cancer Chemotherapy." On a personal note, Weinstein's son, Daniel, was a member of the 1998 U.S. Winter Olympic Team and competed in the 500-meter short-track speed skating event in Nagano, Japan.

Paige Williams, associate professor of biostatistics, was given the 1998 James Grizzle Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in March at the UNC School of Public Health Alumni Day.