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The fellowships are designed to help young scientists who face increasing competition for federal grants, by helping them establish their own laboratories and recruit graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The fellowships provide each recipient with up to $100,000 in unrestricted funds annually for three years.

Honoring Elsen  Friends and admirers of Albert Elsen gathered on campus Oct. 25 to dedicate a new outdoor sculpture to the Stanford art professor who died in 1995. Column I, a soaring construction of stainless steel, is the creation of the late sculptor James Rosati. The silver column, which Elsen had called Rosati’s finest work, stands in front of the School of Law between the Calder and Snelson sculptures. Elsen, a world authority on the work of Auguste Rodin and mentor to generations of graduate students, was for 30 years the driving force behind the university’s acquisition and display of public sculpture throughout the campus. John Merryman, professor emeritus of law and an affiliated professor of art, called the new sculpture “a personal tribute to a remarkable teacher, scholar and art world activist.”

New Post for Shulman  Education Professor Lee S. Shulman has been named the eighth president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The independent policy center, which is currently based in Princeton, N.J., is expected to move its offices to Palo Alto when Shulman takes over in August 1997. An expert on teaching and teacher training, Shulman has been at Stanford since 1982. His other areas of expertise include the psychology of instruction in science, math and medicine; the logic of educational research; and policies intended to increase professionalism in teaching. ST

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