VOLUME 12, NUMBER 15 • FEBRUARY 16, 2001

AROUND CAMPUS

Awards news

The Gheorghe Lazar Prize of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, was presented in December for the 1998 book Comparisons of Stochastic Matrices, with Applications in Information Theory, Statistics, Economics, and Population Sciences, by Joel E. Cohen, J. H. B. Kemperman and Gh. Zbaganu. It was presented to Gheorghita Zbaganu, guest investigator in the Laboratory of Populations, on behalf of the authors.

A list of faculty awards in the previous issue of News&Notes should have mentioned that Professor Emeritus Maclyn McCarty received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University last year.

Papers and talks

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