Martha A. Chen, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and development adviser at the Harvard Institute for International Development, has been named the Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. Chen will build on her current work as coordinator of Women in Informal Development: Globalizing and Organizing, a coalition of 30 institutions concerned with improving research and policies on women in the informal sector of the economy. The Horner Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Radcliffe College was established in honor of former Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner and is supported in part by an endowment from the Latsis Foundation.

Gould Receives Public Service Award

Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, received the National Science Board (NSB) Public Service Award this week at the NSB's annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C.

Women's Event to Spotlight Harvard Affiliates

The Women's Cancers Program at Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare will be the beneficiary of the Exceptional Women Awards Luncheon, presented by WMJX (106.7 FM) on Thursday, May 13, at the Westin Copley Place Boston.

The Courage Award will be given to Julie Goldman, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who is also a Peace Corps volunteer and breast cancer survivor.

Barbara Smith, assistant professor of surgery and co- director of the Gillette Centers for Women's Cancers, also will speak at the luncheon.

Wailoo Receives McDonnell Fellowship

Keith A. Wailoo, associate professor of social medicine and history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and visiting professor of the history of science and Afro- American studies, has been named one of 10 international recipients of a $1 million James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship.

The Fellowship targets early-career scientist-scholars for work that contributes substantially to the development of knowledge and its responsible application in the next century.

Wailoo will use the award to pursue an extended historical study of disease and the biomedical sciences in the 20th century.