Arts & Sciences presents Alumni Awards and Dean's Medal

Arts & Sciences will recognize the achievements of its alumni and special friends at 4 p.m. May 19 in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall.

Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences, will present Distinguished Alumni Awards to six alumni who have attained distinction in their academic or professional careers and have demonstrated service to their communities and to the University. The Dean's Medal will be awarded to Richard A. Roloff, executive vice chancellor, for his support and dedication to Arts & Sciences.

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Robert Pollak receives Mindel C. Sheps Award

Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in the College of Arts & Sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business, has received the prestigious Mindel C. Sheps Award, sponsored by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the Population Association of America.

The award, which carries a $5,000 cash prize, is given every two years for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography and related fields.

Among demographers, Pollak is best known for solving demography's long-standing "two-sex problem." He developed a well-specified nonlinear model that, by relaxing the assumption that women's fertility rates are fixed, allows the number of marriages (and thus births) to depend on the number and ages of men as well as women. Unlike traditional models, which consider women only, Pollak's model also considers men and allows for temporary imbalances between the female and male populations of marriageable age.

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Obituary

Morris Davidson, M.D., professor emeritus of otolaryngology at the School of Medicine, died Thursday, April 20, 2000, of cardiac arrest at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Davidson, a physician for 50 years, was 85.

A private service was held April 25 at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetary. This included a color guard, gun salute and taps in honor of Davidson's service as a flight surgeon in World War II. A memorial service also was held May 2 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Davidson was born in Milwaukee and raised in Elkhart, Ind. He received a medical degree from Indiana University in 1938 and was an otolaryngology resident at Barnes Hospital. He became a clinical otolaryngology instructor at the medical school in 1948.

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Architecture students earn prizes

The School of Architecture recently announced student competition winners. Graduate student Karl Gustafson won a $3,500 fellowship in the school's 2000 Steedman II Competition for his portfolio and proposal to study the work of noted 20th-century Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz. Gustafson will focus on Lewerentz's Resurrection Chapel and Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm and St. Petri Church in Klippan, Sweden.

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Law students win high moot court honors

Students at the School of Law recently captured high honors in a number of national lawyering skills competitions.

Third-year students Andrew C. Ruben and Gilbert C. Sison and second-year students E. Regan Loyd, Kevin P. Ray and Edward M. Shin ranked third out of 132 U.S. teams and 13th among more than 300 teams worldwide in the 2000 Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court World Cup.

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