OXFORD BOUND: Two Stanford students are headed to Oxford next year on prestigious Marshall scholarships. The winners are Avery Willis, '99, and Matt Spence, '00. Willis is a second-generation Marshall recipient. Her father, now a professor of history at Princeton, won the scholarship in 1963.
PRIZE-WINNING PHYSICIANS: Halsted Holman, a professor of medicine, won the Arthritis Foundation's Virginia Engalitcheff Award for Impact on Quality of Life. His research has resulted in a better understanding of complex disease processes. Charles Taylor, an assistant research professor of surgery who focuses on cardiovascular disease, won a $210,000 biomedical engineering research grant from the Whitaker Foundation. Helen Blau, professor and chair of molecular pharmacology, received the 1999 Excellence in Science award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Blau was recognized for her work on how cells become and remain differentiated during development. Sarah Donaldson, professor and chief of radiation oncology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. Donaldson is recognized for her innovative treatment of children with cancer.
ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE: Provost John Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 John von Neumann Medal, awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for outstanding achievement in computer-related science. Thomas Kailath, a professor of electrical engineering, received the 2000 C.E. Shannon Award, given by the IEEE Information Theory Society for contributions to that field. Madihally Narasimha, consulting professor of electrical engineering, was elected an IEEE fellow.
