Awards
Fellows of the British Academy
To be made a Fellow of the British Academy is one of the highest accolades that those working in the arts and humanities can achieve. This year an outstanding number of new Fellows came from Cambridge. They were Dr Jeremy Butterfield of the Faculty of Philosophy, Dr Andy Cliff of the Department of Geography, Dr Ian Hodder, of the Department of Archaeology, Professor Anthony Hopkins, Professor of Commonwealth history, Dr Christopher Prendergast, Reader in Modern French Literature, Dr Dorothy Thompson, classics expert and Senior Tutor at Girton, and Dr Keith Wrightson, Reader in English Social History.Dr Ruth Smith of the Careers Service has been awarded a Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the Academy for Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth Century Thought (CUP, 1995). The prizes are awarded annually to a woman of any nationality, who has written or published an historical or critical work on sufficient value on any subject connected with English literature.
Professor D. K. Fieldhouse, formerly of the University of Cambridge, was made a Senior Fellow of the British Academy.
Engineering Honour
The Royal Academy of Engineering has elected three Cambridge engineers to Fellowships. Professor Ann Dowling, has been chosen for her outstanding contribution to the understanding and control of combustion oscillations in gas turbine systems; Dr Andy Hopper has been recognised for his work on distributed, network, and multimedia computing in his twin capacities as an academic and as a director of industrial research and Professor Colin Humphreys has been elected to a Fellowship for his work on the microstructure and engineering properties of materials as well as his national and international role in Materials Science and Engineering.Maths Prize
The European Academic Software Awards (EASA) Finals were recently held in Austria. Of the 10 awards, the commercial award went to Dr Robert Harding, and his co-author Dr Douglas Quinney of Keele University, for their package Calculus Connections No 1. Another project with which Dr Harding is associated, SToMP, also won a departmental Award. Calculus Connections is an interactive, multimedia package providing motivation and practice for the study of calculus, on a CD-ROM and accompanied by a Lab Book.Chemistry Quality
Dr Ian Paterson of the Department of Chemistry has won The Royal Society of Chemistry's Bader Award. The award commends Dr Paterson for his pioneering work in organic chemistry, notably the synthesis of bioactive products with potential therapeutic applications. Dr Paterson and colleagues are currently at an advanced stage in the synthesis of two potential anti-cancer agents found in only microscopic quantities in marine organismsDr Andy Holmes won The Royal Society of Chemistry's ICI plc-sponsored award for Materials Science, and is also a founder of Cambridge Display Technology, a three-year-old start-up company pioneering commercial applications for light-emitting polymers. The company has produced prototype backlit seven segment displays, typical of video recorders, and the first light-emitting polymer dot-matrix display.
Numismatism
Dr Ted Buttrey, retired Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, has been elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and in March received the Huntington Medal of the American Numismatic Society.Birthday Honours
In the Queens' Birthday Honours List in June, Mr Michael McCrum, formerly Vice-Chancellor and Master of Corpus, was awarded a CBE for his service to education as well as his role in the Cathedrals Fabric Commission.Margaret Brown, of the Director's office at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology on Hills Road, has been awarded an MBE for her contribution to science. Professor Alec Boksenberg former director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory was also awarded the CBE.