Kudos

Dr. Heinz Lehmann, from the Department of Psychiatry, has been inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Other new members of the hall include, poshumously, politician Tommy Douglas, widely regarded as the father of Medicare, and astronaut/medical researcher Dr. Roberta Bondar. Lehmann was cited as a "pioneer in psychiatric clinical investigation." Dr. Shree Mulay, director of the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, was named as one of the YWCA's 1998 Women of Distinction. Mulay, the co-founder of Montreal's South Asian Women's Community Centre and an expert on women's health issues in developing countries, earned the honour in the category of "Advancement of Women." Dean of Engineering John Dealy has earned the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology, the organization's highest honour. Created in 1948, the prize has only gone to Canadian-based researchers twice -- the last time to McGill's Stanley Mason in 1968. Dealy has now won every major prize offered by the society -- the first person ever to accomplish this. Dr. Abby Lippman, from the Departments of Human Genetics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, was also cited as a YWCA Woman of Distinction in the category of "Science and Technology." Lippman helped create the Info-grossesse health help-line for pregnant women and her research on prenatal testing for birth defects has had a wide impact. Professor Barbara Sherwin, from the Department of Psychology, is the 1998 recipient of the Heinz Lehmann Award for Outstanding Contributions to Neuropsychopharmacology, awarded by the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Sherwin's research on menopause has earned international attention. Professor Emeritus Barry G. Newman, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, received the McCurdy Award of the Canadair Aeronautics and Space Institute. Newman has studied jets, the effects of wind on buildings, animal flight and boomerangs, among other subjects. According to the institute, Newman's contributions to the understanding of air flows are enormous and the research he supervised in the 1960s and '70s still forms the core of available knowledge. The McCurdy Award is given for his lifetime of dedication to the advancement of science and engineering. Professor Lawrence Mysak, from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, received two major honours over the summer. He was awarded the Patterson Distinguished Service Medal from Environment Canada's Atmospheric Environment Service in recognition of his "outstanding service in the field of meteorology." He also earned the CMOS 1997 J.P. Tully Medal in Oceanography from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Mysak was cited for his "impact on and leadership in oceanographic research and education in Canada." Mr. Bruno Tremblay, who just earned his PhD from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, has won the Graduate Student Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Tremblay earned the prize for his thesis, "Modeling Sea Ice as a Granular Material with Applications to Climate Variability."