David Rohde '90, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his "persistent on-site reporting of the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica." Last November, Rohde traveled into Bosnian Serb territory, where he was captured and detained for 10 days before the United States negotiated his release. The reports he sent to the Monitor offered the first publicized evidence that the suspected mass killings had taken place. Matthew Wald '76 was a runner-up in the explanatory journalism category, along with his New York Times colleagues Adam Bryant and Stephen Engelberg, for coverage of deficient safety regulation of commuter air traffic.

Scott E. Anderson '87 won an Academy Award for best visual effects for his work with colleagues Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox on the movie "Babe."

Thomas Banchoff, professor of mathematics, is one of three mathematicians to receive the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics at the prize session of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society during their joint meeting held in Orlando, Fla. The award honors college or university teachers who are widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness clearly has had an influence beyond their own institutions.

Banchoff is best known for his work in computer graphics, beginning with the award-winning film "The Hypercube: Projections and Slicing" and extending to his current projects in interative computer laboratories for multi-variable calculus and differential geometry.

The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional society of college and university mathematics teachers in the world, with nearly 30,000 members.

Michael Putnam, professor of classics, was among the 159 scholars selected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Putnam was one of seven chosen in the section on philology and criticism. The AAAS was founded in 1780 "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." It gathers the country's leading figures from universities, government, business and the creative arts to exchange ideas and promote knowledge for the public interest.

Chemistry professor David Cane has received the Kitasato Medal in Microbial Chemistry by the directors of the Kitasato Institute in Tokyo, in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of the biosynthesis of microbial products. Previous medal winners include Max Tisher, former vice president for research at Merck, and Sir David Hopwood of the John Innes Institute in Norwich, U.K. Cane also has been named associate editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, one of the world's leading journals in the field; he served as co-vice chair of the 1995 Gordon Research Conference; and he is editing a volume on isoprenoid biosynthesis, part of a seven-volume series of authoritative monographs being published by Elsevier.

Two Brown professors have received Guggenheim Fellowships for 1996: Tim Harris, professor of history and director of the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, for his monograph, "Political Power, and Public Opinion in Britain, 1660-1707"; and Kyung-Suk Kim, professor of engineering, for his research into the mechanical behavior of solid nanostructures. Fellows are appointed on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Leon Goldstein, chair of the Department of Physiology and professor of physiology and biophysics, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation's Advisory Panel for Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. His appointment is in effect until the end of November 1996.

At the invitation of the United Nations Population Fund, Sidney Goldstein, professor emeritus of sociology, recently served as chair of the Symposium on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries. The symposium, held at the U.N. headquarters in New York, brought together experts from all regions of the world to assess the current status of research and knowledge about population redistribution and settlement patterns and problems in developing countries. The results of the symposium will provide background material for the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements to be held in Istanbul in June.

Goldstein is currently engaged in research in China and Vietnam on the impact of social and economic reforms on population redistribution in those countries.

Among the seven recipients of this year's George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation fellowships for the 1996-97 academic year are Rose Rosengard Subotnik, professor of musicology, for her study, "The Broadway Musical as a Gauge of American Values: Rethinking the Paradigms of Musical Scholarship and National Identity." The seven fellowship recipients, representing the field of music (composition, musicology and performance) were selected from among 80 scholars and musicians nominated by administrative officers of colleges, universities and cultural institutions.

Mercedes Vaquero, associate professor of Hispanic studies, has accepted the resident directorship of the International Institute in Spain for the 1996-97 academic year. The institute was chartered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1892, has its seat in Calle Miguel Angel 8 in Madrid, and it is the oldest and most prestigious American cultural and educational institution in Spain.

Browns' Hispanic Studies Department, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge, England, recently organized a seminar series dedicated to research on the Iberoamerican cultural interactions. Professors Mercedes Vaquero, Geoffrey Ribbans, Stephanie Merrim, and Julio Ortega from Hispanic studies, as well as Anani Dzidzienyo, associate professor of Afro-American studies, presented their research in a conference at Emmanuel College in Cambridge on May 1. They focused on Spanish, Spanish-American and Brazilian topics related to the literary representation of cultural agents. On May 2, Brown's Mexican Project presented a roundtable discussion of six Mexican writers discussing Mexico City as a cultural area. Carlos Fuentes, professor-at-large in Hispanic studies, closed with a keynote speech on "Mexico as the Capital of Crisis."

Nelson Vieira, associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies, has been elected president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, an organization of scholars from Israel, the United States, Europe and Latin America, focusing research on the Jewish presence in Latin America. Vieira has completed a new book, "Jewish Voices in Brazilian Literature: a Prophetic Discourse of Alterity," published by the University Press of Florida.

Don Wilmeth, professor of theatre, speech and dance, was named Dean of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the annual meeting of the Fellows at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Wilmeth is the 11th dean since the founding of the organization in 1965, and will serve through 1998, during whichtime he also is serving as secretary of the American Society for Theatre Research.

Nobel laureate Leon Cooper, professor of physics, was among five Columbia University alumni Nobel Prize winners who received the Alexander Hamilton Medal. Columbia's undergraduate school has graduated nine Nobel laureates in science, more than any other American college. The previous four winners received the Hamilton Medal in a similar celebration in 1961. Cooper is a member of the Class of 1951. The Hamilton Medal has been given since 1947 to honor faculty, former faculty or alumni for "distinguished service and accomplishment in any field of human endeavor."

Simon and Schuster has just published "John's Wife," the latest novel by Robert Coover, adjunct professor of English. According to the publisher, "John and his wife are the twin suns of a small town where this raucous and disturbing novel is set. Everybody desires John's wife, `yet few of the town's citizens, if asked, could have described her.' She is the screen on which everyone projects his or her desires."

A graduate alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lambert Freund, professor of engineering, received his alma mater's College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service at its 32nd Honor Awards Convocation April 12. Freund, who joined the Brown staff as a postdoctoral fellow in 1967, was recognized for his outstanding and fundamental contributions to the mechanics of materials. Freund is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Acadmey of Arts and Sciences, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and American Academy of Mechanics.

The Rhode Island Medical Women's Association has selected Mary Arnold, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, as the Rhode Island Woman Physician of the Year. Arnold has taught at Brown since 1966, predating the founding of the medical school. She specializes in pediatric endocrinology and has won several teaching awards given by the graduating class of medical students.

The Students with Alternate Learning Styles has selected 10 professors and graduate teaching assistants to receive the 1996 SALS Teacher Recognition Awards: Heather Ahlburn, psychology; Ruth Colwill, psychology; David Gottlieb, applied mathematics; Jerome Grieder, history; Martha Joukowsky, anthropology; Leslie Kaelbling, computer science; Kenneth Miller, biology and medicine; Laura Souders, Slavic studies; Lucia Tono, Hispanic studies; and Richard Yund, geology.

Brown trustee and alumna Wendy Strothman '72 has been named executive vice president, trade and reference division, for the Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. Strothman came to the company in September 1995 as vice president, publisher, adult trade and reference.