Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, was recently awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art.

Badian also received an honorary degree from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).

Edley Jr. Appointed to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Christopher Edley Jr., professor of law since 1981, has been named to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Edley is the founding co-director of the Civil Rights Project, a recently launched think tank at Harvard. Since June 1997, Edley has served in a consulting capacity as senior adviser to President Clinton for the Race Initiative, and consultant to the president's Advisory Board on Racial Reconciliation. During the Clinton Administration, Edley has also served as associate director for economics and government at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Rogers Receives Award for Work with Abused Girls

Annie G. Rogers, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education, will be honored Saturday, May 22, with a "Woman of the Year" award from the Germaine Lawrence School, a residential treatment program in Arlington, Mass., for adolescent girls who have been abused.

Each year, the school honors women who have dedicated themselves to improving the lives of children.

Rogers is a clinical psychologist and a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development whose work addresses developmental sequelae of abuse and violence and the development of courage in girls and women. For the past two years, she has been interviewing sexually abused girls at the Germaine Lawrence School about their understandings of themselves, their relationships, and their experiences of abuse.

Wolff, Bane Participate in Commencement Ceremonies

Christoph Wolff, William Powell Mason Professor of Music and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will receive an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston at its 128th Commencement on May 23.

Mary Jo Bane, professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, gave the commencement address at Regis College's 69th Commencement ceremony last Saturday, May 15.