Fellows in the News 2005

December 11, 2005.  The New York Times Magazine published a list of 78 of the "most noteworthy ideas" of 2005.  One item that made the list was "The False Memory Diet", based on research by Elizabeth Loftus (Fellow 1979)  in collaboration with her graduate students Cara Laney & Erin Morris and with postdoc Dan Bernstein.     The research was also featured in the January 2006 issue of Discover Magazine.

November 30, 2005.  Lee Shulman (Fellow 1980) has been awarded the 2006 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Education for his research into what makes someone a good teacher.

November 17, 2005.  James Fries (Fellow 1979 & 2001) received the Clinical Research Award from the American College of Rheumatology during the ACR Annual Scientific Meeting, Nov. 12-17 in San Diego, California.  The Clinical Research Award is given to a clinical scientist making oustanding contributions to the field of rheumatology.

November 14, 2005.  The possible elimination of the home mortgage tax deduction was suggested by a presidential panel that included James Poterba (Fellow 1994).   However, it won't happen any time soon. See today's article in Time Magazine.

November 14, 2005.  Ambition, motivation, or lack thereof, in middle and junior high school students was the topic of an article in today's issue of Time magazine.  Research by Jacquelynne Eccles (Fellow 2001) and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco (Fellow 1993) was included.

November 12, 2005.  Wim J. van der Linden (Fellow 2003) has been named the 2006 recipient of the ATP (Association of Test Publishers) Career Achievement Award for his contributions to the testing community.  The award will be given in February at the ATP annual conference.

October 18, 2005.  Janet Mann (Fellow 1995 & 2005) commented today on ABC's Good Morning America report of dolphins nuzzling and making squeaking noises to pregnant mothers in Peru.

October 18, 2005.  John Bunzel (Fellow 1970) presented his annual stand-up comedy show during Stanford's Reunion Homecoming weekend, exploring the topic "What makes us laugh?"

September 28, 2005.  Kathryn Kish Sklar (Fellow 1988) is Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at Oxford in 2005-2006, where she will lecture on "The Centrality of Feminism in American Political History, 1776-2000."

September 25, 2005.  Deborah Post (Fellow 2003) authored an article that appeared in Newsday.com on class distinctions in local evictions.

September 18, 2005.  Webb Keane (Fellow 2004) commented on the definition of clutter in our lives, in an article entitled "Conquering Clutter: How To Stop Your Stuff From Spreading Out, Spilling Over, Piling Up" in the Los Angeles Times.  He's currently a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and will be a Suntory and Toyota Distinguished Visiting Professor at London School of Economics this fall.

September 12, 2005.   Wendell Bell (Fellow 1964), Yale University, received an award for "Lifetime Achievement and Contributions to the Field of Futures Studies" from the World Futures Studies Federation at its conference in Budapest, Hungary, August 21-27, 2005.

September 11, 2005.  Steven Levitt (Fellow 2003) authored an article (with Stephen Dubner) on self-experimentation, called "Does the Trust Lie Within?" in the New York Times magazine.

August 23, 2005.  David J. Weber (Fellow 1987) received the highest award the Mexican government bestows on foreign nationals, the Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (the Order of the Aztec Eagle) for his contributions to Mexican history, in February 2005.  In 2002 King Juan Carlos of Spain named him to membership in the Real Orden de Isabel la Católica, the Spanish equivalent of a knighthood.

August 10, 2005.  Dan Blazer (Fellow 2003) advises us that he was selected as the Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year for Duke University Medical Center for 2005; he is the recipient of the Kleemeier Award from the Gerontological Society of America for 2005 (a lifetime award for research in gerontology); and he is the incoming Chair of the Membership Committee for the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

August 1, 2005.  The moral argument surrounding dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 is the subject of an article by David Kennedy (Fellow 1987) in today's Time Magazine.

August, 2005.  Claude Steele's (Fellow 1995)  Psi Chi address, "Can You Feel the Identity Shift?  Even the most secure alter themselves in threatening and uncomfortable situations" was featured in this month's American Psychological Society's Observer.

July 22, 2005.  Jon Bendor  (Fellow 2000 & 2005) has been awarded the Heinz Eulau award from the American Political Science Association for the best paper published in the American Political Science Review in 2004.  He and fellow award winner Adam Meirowitz started the paper when he was at the Center in 1999-2000.

June 27, 2005. "Sponging" behavior among dolphins was commented on by Fellow Janet Mann (1996, 2006) in the science section of today's Washington Post.

June 24, 2005. An Op-Ed chart in the New York TImes illustrated growing political polarization in Congress, as shown by roll-call votes over last 50 years researched by former Fellows Keith Poole (2004) and Howard Rosenthal (1992, 1999).

June 6, 2005.  The increase in incidence of autism, and research into its cure is the subject of "On My Mind" authored by Jerome Kagan (Fellow 1980) and Robert Pozen.

June 5, 2005.  Former Fellow Milton Friedman (1958) was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle on his opposition to Social Security and the introduction of private Social Security accounts.

June 3, 2005.  Wim J. van der Linden (Fellow 2003) received the 2005 NCME Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement.  The award recognizes his contributions to educational measurement, his mentorship of students and colleagues, his scholarship, and his service to the field.

June, 2005.  Kathryn Kish Sklar (Fellow 1988) has been appointed to the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History and will be a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford for 2005-6.

June, 2005.  David Collier (Fellow 1995) and Henry Brady (Fellow 2002) have won the 2005 Giovanni Sartori Book Award for their new book Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards.

May 23, 2005.  Harvard's Peter Galison (Fellow 1990) delivered the Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecture at Stanford University entitled The Assassin of Relativity.  He  also gave a technical colloquium titled Physics: History of the Present on May 24.

May 20, 2005.  In her first article for a British newspaper (The Times) future Fellow Catharine MacKinnon (2006) looked at the infiltration of pornography into mainstream culture.

May 19, 2005.  Using circular particle accelerators, Reviel Netz (Fellow 2005) is among the scientists decoding Archimedes' 2,000-year-old  ideas known as the "Palimpsest."  More in this article from the San Jose Mercury News.

May 10, 2005.  Five former Fellows were among the 186 artists, scholars, and scientists from the U.S. and Canada awarded 2005 Guggenheim Fellowships.   They are:  Peter Gourevitch (Fellow 2003), Paul L. Harris (Fellow 1993), Ian Hodder (Fellow 1987), Dorothy L. Hodgson (Fellow 2002), and Gary Saxonhouse (Fellow 1985, 1996, 2000).

May 9, 2005.  Two former Fellows recently received awards from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.  Charles J. Epstein (Fellow 1984) received the Clinical Medical Title award for Inborn Errors of Development: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis (with Robert P. Erickson, and Anthony Wynshaw-Borris), and Yuri Slezkine (Fellow 2002) received the Religion Title award for The Jewish Century (a Tyler collection work).

May 3, 2005.  Bob Keohane (Fellow 1978, 1988, 2005)  was among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Click here for the announcement.

May 2, 2005.  Former Fellow Steven Levitt (fellow 2002) had his first book Freakonomics (co-authored with Stephen Dubner) reviewed in today's Time magazine.

April 27, 2005.  Alan Krueger (Fellow 2000) commented in an article in the New York Times on a recent survey on the ability of Americans to understand and manage their own retirements.

April 27, 2005.  Congratulations to the following former Fellows on their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  They are John Darley (Fellow 1986 & 2006)), Robert Fogelin (Fellow 1989), David Kertzer (Fellow 1983), Keith Lehrer (Fellow 1974), Alberto Palloni (Fellow 1992), Richard Saller (Fellow 1987), Robert Sampson (Fellow 19989, 2003), and Norman Schofield (Fellow 1989).  Click here for the entire AAAS announcement.