American Health Magazine has named 13 School of Medicine faculty to its "Best Doctors in America" list. The physicians are Kirby I. Bland, chairman and professor of surgery (breast cancer); Sidney S. Braman, professor of medicine (asthma); Anthony A. Caldamone, professor of surgery (urology); Donald R. Coustan, professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology (diabetes in pregnancy); James P. Crowley, professor of medicine (hematology/oncology); Penelope H. Dennehy, associate professor of pediatrics (infectious diseases); J. Donald Easton, professor and co-chairman of clinical neurosciences (neurology); Gregory K. Fritz, professor of psychiatry and human behavior (mentally ill children); Philip A. Gruppuso, professor of pediatrics and professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry (diabetes); William Oh, professor and chairman of pediatrics (neonatology); Georges Peter, professor of pediatrics (infectious diseases); Harold Wanebo, professor of surgery (gastrointestinal, head and neck cancer); and David O. Williams, professor of medicine (cardiology). The magazine's list of 1,019 specialists were chosen by more than 3,200 peers from 350 academic medical centers in the United States. The list was published in the March issue.

"Why Pan-Africanism Failed: Blackness and International Relations," an article written for The Griot by Rhett S. Jones, professor of history and Afro-American studies, has received the publication's annual Ochillo Award for best article published in 1995. The Griot is a refereed journal published by the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies.

The Second International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts, to be held in England next July, will honor Philip J. Bray, professor emeritus of physics, for "his lifetime of distinguished achievement in the science of borates." Bray will present the plenary lecture.

Kay Moore, 85, chief catalog librarian at Brown for 31 years when he retired in June 1976, died March 13 at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence. After his retirement from Brown, Moore worked as a cataloger for the genealogy collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society.