VOLUME 12, NUMBER 11 • DECEMBER 8, 2000

Faculty Honors

Professors Charles Gilbert and Mary E. Hatten were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world’s largest general science organization and publisher of the peer-reviewed journal Science. With more than 138,000 members and 275 affiliated societies, AAAS serves as an authoritative source for information on the latest developments in science and bridges gaps among scientists, policy-makers and the public to advance science and science education.

Vincent P. Dole, professor emeritus at The Rockefeller University, received the 2000 Warren Williams Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his pioneering work in establishing methadone maintenance as a treatment for heroin addiction. The award was presented in Washington, D.C., at the American Psychiatric Association assembly on Sat., Nov. 11. Sponsored by the New York State Psychiatric Association, Area II of the APA, the award is named in honor of a former speaker of the assembly of the APA. Dole developed the methadone program in the 1960s in collaboration with his wife, the late Marie Nyswander, and Mary Jeanne Kreek, now professor and head of the Laboratory for the Biology of Addictive Diseases at Rockefeller. Administered in daily oral doses, methadone acts to block the frequent and extreme mood shifts characteristic of heroin addiction so that patients stabilized on methadone are able to lead normal, productive lives. Following pilot studies at The Rockefeller Hospital, methadone maintenance was adopted in hundreds of programs worldwide