LSA Bulletin
October 2004
Nota Bene
Congratulations
David Beaver (Stanford U) and Veronica
Grondona (E MI U) were awarded research fellowships by the American
Council of Learned Societies. Hans Heinrich Hock (U IL-Urbana)
was elected editor of Folia Linguistic Historica. Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich
Ivanov (UCLA) was appointed the first holder of the Chair of
Modern Culture at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
Alexis McCray (NIH) received an Innovations in American
Government Award for her work developing ClinicalTrials.gov,
a website that provides detailed information on the location of clinical
trials, type of treatment, and criteria for participation. Paul
Smolensky (Johns Hopkins U) was awarded the annual David E. Rumelhart
Prize in Cognitive Science (for making a significant contemporary contribution
to the formal analysis of human cognition) by the Cognitive Science Society.
Joan Bresnan (Stanford U), Barbara Grosz (Harvard
U), Brian Joseph (OH SU), and Janet Pierrehumbert
(Northwestern U) were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Of Note
The University of Chicago Press has re-issued The eater's guide to Chinese characters by James D. McCawley.
Condolences
The LSA joins its friends at the Modern Language Association in mourning the loss of Phyllis Franklin who died in Coral Gables, FL, on 20 August 2004. Phyllis served as Executive Director of the MLA from 1985 until her retirement in 2002. A scholar and teacher of American literature and women's studies, Phyllis contributed richly to the discussions on issues affecting the humanities and higher education. Her wisdom and leadership will be missed.
Thanks
The Society is grateful to Diana Boxer for representing the Society at the inauguration of the new president of the University of Florida.