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Mariann Byerwalter, Stanford's chief financial officer and Class of '82 alumna, received the Financial Woman of the Year award from the San Francisco Financial Women's Association. Stanford named Linda Darling-Hammond the new Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education. She comes to Stanford from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. Barry M. Trost, the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, received a 1998 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for his concept of "atom economy," the efficient use of atoms in commercial chemical processes and pharmaceuticals to reduce waste. A nationwide search through 112 candidates led to Morris Graves, former head of the Black Community Services Center and director of the African and Afro-American Studies program, who was named an associate dean of students. James V. Risser, director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford, has been elected a co-chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have appointed Stanford law Professor Deborah Rhode to assist in handling possible impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, is an expert on legal ethics and has written several books on sex discrimination. Senior Kalpana Kotagal, an earth systems and economics major, won a $5,000 Morris K. Udall Scholarship, recogninzing her public service potential. David Holloway, the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, is the new director of the Institute for International Studies (IIS) at Stanford. Coit Blacker, a senior fellow at IIS and former acting director, will become deputy director. Masahiko Aoki, the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies, has been selected to receive the sixth Schumpeter Prize from the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society in Vienna for his upcoming book Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis. Alexander George, professor emeritus of political science, received the $50,000 Johan Skytte Prize in political science, awarded by the Foundation for the Chair in Eloquence and Government at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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