Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Award Convocation on April 4. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in a packed auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.

The awards and their recipients were as follows:

• Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists: assistant professors Jane Fajans, anthropology, and Andrew Galloway, English. Trustee Fellow and Presidential Councillor Robert Appel '53 attended the event.
• Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Awards for Excellence in Advising: Professor Richard Galik, physics and nuclear studies, and computer science Professor Charles Van Loan.
• Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Awards: graduate student Ewa Badowska and professors Calum Carmichael, comparative literature, and David Mermin, physics.

One lecturer and 10 graduate students received John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Awards: lecturer Ann Boehm and graduate students Cathy Carlson, Aash Clerk, Pete Coviello, Ofelia Ferran, Nick Fowler, Bill Ham, Jeff Hyson, Michelle McClure, Hal Schenck and Yan Vtorov-Karevsky.

Also honored were the five seniors with the highest grade point averages in their class: Tariq Aly Kassum and Robert D. Kleinberg, who will serve as degree marshals at Commencement, and Jonathan Levine, Katherine J. Roberts and Elaine Wong, who will serve as banner bearers.

Convocation included an address by government Professor Isaac Kramnick titled "Freedom of Inquiry: Some Cornell Narratives," in which he read excerpts from the journals of some of Cornell's earliest students.