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William H. Foege, a senior fellow in the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was awarded the inaugural Thomas H. Weller Prize yesterday at the “Ancient Diseases, Modern Killers: The Eradication of Infectious Disease” symposium sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health...
Weller, the award’s namesake and the symposium’s honoree, was a physician and virologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1954 for his work in tissue-culture research, which led to the development of vaccines for polio, chicken pox, measles, and other viral diseases. Weller died...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed has been appointed as a professor at Harvard Law School, a professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and will serve as the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
Gordon-Reed, a 1984 graduate of the Law School, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her book, “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” which traces the lineage of four generations of a slave family descended from Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson...
...once physical and artistic. After studying film at the Sorbonne, and releasing more than 20 documentaries, he began to write novels in Persian. His first novel in French, “Singue Sabour” (“Stone of Patience”), earned him the Goncourt Prize...