Dr. Joseph Milic-Emili, from the Faculty of Medicine's Meakins-Christie Laboratories, has won the 1998 Presidential Award from the European Respiratory Society and the 1998 Distinguished Lecturer in Physiology Award from the American College of Chest Physicians in honour of his scientific contributions in the field of respiratory physiopathology. In February, he will become Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Athens in Greece.

Dr. Keith Drummond, from the Department of Pediatrics, received the Founder's Award given by the Kidney Foundation of Canada. In the course of his 35-year career, Drummond established the first pediatric kidney disease program in Canada and set up the Montreal Children's Hospital's clinical division for kidney disease.

Professor David Williams, from the Department of English, has earned the Raymond Klibansky Prize in English from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada for his recent book, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature. The award recognizes excellence in research and writing.

Dr. Martin Tyler, from the Faculty of Dentistry, was recently named president of the 800-member American Academy of Oral Medicine. The academy includes specialists who deal with a range of diseases of the mouth. According to Ebony magazine, Tyler is the organization's first black president.

Professor Ann Carson, from the Classics Program, won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English Language Literature. Carson earned the prize, worth $2,000, for her book, Autobiography of Red.