Five academics received the 1992 Charles A. Dana Awards for Pioneering Achievements in Health and Education on November 4. Four $50,000 awards were given out; two liberal arts professors and one scientist each received individual awards and two other scientists split a fourth award. The New York City-based Charles A. Dana Foundation also presented a Distinguished Achievement Award to National Institutes of Health director Bernadine P. Healy. Following are the other recipients: Stanley B. Prusi

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Oncology Center in Baltimore has named oncology professor Martin D. Abeloff as its new director. Currently, the university is planning the construction of a new building for the facility. The Oncology Center was created under the National Cancer Act of 1976. Along with an 84-bed hospital, the center has research programs in nearly every type of cancer, including breast, lung, colon, prostate, brain, and ovarian cancer, as well as leukemia. Abeloff had bee

A report from the National Research Council outlining an agenda for the future of computer science has attracted stinging comments from nearly 1,000 computer scientists, including some of the major names in the field. The critics say the report completely ignores large areas of computer science, such as artificial intelligence (AI). They are calling for the document to be withdrawn and revised. On September 4, the detractors sent a petition to the E-mail message boards of the United States' la

Academic science in the United States is in for some rough times from the government, according to the newly appointed president of the Association of American Universities (AAU). "This is a time of challenge, perhaps more than we've seen in several decades--when major research universities are acting under some duress and, perhaps, when some science in the U.S. has come somewhat into question," says Cornelius J. Pings, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University o

The act, they contend, will not deter violence by zealots Scientists whose labs and offices have been victimized by the arson, burglary, and property damage of animal rights activists insist that a new law, the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992, will not end the long string of violence. The legislation, signed two months ago by President Bush, adds vandalism of animal research labs, or "animal enterprise terrorism," according to the law, to federal criminal statutes. The Department o

The 44-year-old Morris Animal Foundation is one of the few granting agencies in the United States to which researchers investigating animal medicine can turn for funding support. The group's new executive director, Robert Hilsenroth, says he hopes that under his leadership, the foundation not only will make significant gains in public awareness, but also will increase the size of its endowment. Hilsenroth, a veterinarian in Denver who sold his private practice 2 1/2 months ago, says he is th

Susan A. Gerbi, a professor of biology at Brown University, has been elected president of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). Although she does not officially take the helm of ASCB until mid-November, at the society's 32nd annual meeting in Denver, Gerbi has already identified four activities she hopes will keep the society vigorous. The first development Gerbi wants to see is increased subscriptions and advertising revenue for the society's journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell,

As the newly elected president of the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG), Janet L. Wright hopes the implementation of aggressive new programs will help more young women become interested, and stay interested, in science. Wright, who teaches introductory classes in physical geology and environmental geology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, says that taking the helm of the 15-year-old St. Paul, Minn.- based group is an opportunity to assist other women who share her passion for s

The board of directors of Research!America, a nonprofit organization whose focus is on educating the public about the benefits of biomedical research, has elected William G. Anlyan chairman. Anlyan, who since 1950 has been a Duke University professor of surgery and currently is a chancellor, emeritus, at Duke, assumed the lead position of Research!America's policy- making body on September 8. Anlyan says that, as the new chairman of the Alexandria-Va.-based organization--which has 165 instit

The award ceremony will take place in Toronto on October 23; the winners will divide the foundation's largess, which totals $220,000 Canadian.

Weissmann v. Freeman battle is revived as Dingell subcommittee decides to launch a new investigation Since the age of two, Heidi Weissmann says, she always wanted to be a doctor. She started college when she was 15, began medical school when she was 19, and by age 30 her supervisor was calling her one of the nation's premier authorities on biliary imaging in nuclear medicine. Yet now, at age 41, Weissmann is unemployed. Since 1987, she has claimed the United States radiological community has b

On August 25, John T. Stock, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, was presented with the Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry. The award was given out at the national American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. The award was presented by the Dexter Corp. of Windsor Locks, Conn., a company focusing on advanced aerospace and electronics technology. Stock was honored for his longtime professional interest in the hi