Notables

Cutberto Garza, professor and director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, has been awarded an Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award by Brown University's Feinstein World Hunger Program. Garza, internationally known for the key role he has played in understanding the nutritional needs of young children, received the $10,000 merit award for research and education. A member of the New York State Public Health Council, Garza also has been chosen to be a member of a state panel to create goals to improve the health of all New Yorkers. The 19-member Public Health Priorities Committee was announced by State Health Commissioner Dr. Barbara A. DeBuono.

Laura L. Meixner, associate professor of the History of Art, has been awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize for 1995 by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français de Washington for her book French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society 1865-1900. The institute, which offers the prize for "the best scholarly contribution to French and American studies published in 1995," provides an award of $1,000.