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Robin Fleming BI ’94, RI ’10, a medieval historian who teaches at Boston College, was named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. The foundation praised “her probing research and her ability to relate her findings with remarkable clarity.”
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The music historian carolyn abbate am ’05, ri ’07, who was recruited to Harvard with the help of a Radcliffe ff Alumnae Professorship, was named the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor. University professorships are Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member. The appointment took effect ff on January 1, 2014. In November, Massachusetts General Hospital awarded joseph e. trimble ri ’01 the 2013 Francis J. Bonner Award. The award was established in 2010 by the MGH Department of Psychiatry and the MGH Psychiatry Center for Diversity to promote diversity and in-
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In December the National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2013 Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose, which enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Among the recipients were rajesh parameswaran ri ’13 and justin torres ri ’13.
clusion in the psychiatric community. Trimble has spent his career conducting psychological and sociocultural research with indigenous populations, especially American Indians and Alaska Natives. He is a coeditor, most recently, of the APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology, Volumes I and II (American Psychological Association, 2013), and Working Culturally and Competently with Persons of African, Asian, Latino, and Native Descent: The Culturally Adaptive Responsive Model of Counselingg (Sage, 2010).
of Distinguished Life Fellow from the American Psychiatric Association—the highest honor the psychiatric profession bestows. Weinstein is an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a clinical associate in psychiatry in the Child and Adolescent Program at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts. She also serves as the president and director of continuing medical education for NECCAP, and has a private practice in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry in Lexington, Massachusetts.
President Barack Obama honored the actress and playwright anna deavere smith bi ’92 with the National Humanities Medal on July 10, 2013.
The independent fi filmmaker kavery kaul ’73 was awarded a 2012–2013 Fulbright Fellowship for research abroad. The award has allowed Kaul to travel to her native India to research, write, and begin production of her new documentary, Streetcar to Kolkata.
sharon weinstein ’72 received the first Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NECCAP), for her outstanding leadership and contributions to education, clinical practice, and advocacy in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. She also received the distinction
inklings In “Yes, but What Are Neutrinos For?” which appeared in the Boston Globe Ideas section on December 1, ray jayawardhana am ’97, phd ’00,
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