The School of Medicine recently presented the annual Sherman M. Mellinkoff Faculty Award, honoring achievements in doctor-patient relationships and medical education, to Milton H. Miller and Robert B. Smith during the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony. Miller is chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and deputy medical director of Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Smith is a senior professor in urology and director of its residency training program.... Alison Bunting, associate university librarian for sciences and director of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA, has received the Marcia C. Noyes Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Medical Library Association. The Noyes Award recognizes a career marked by lasting, outstanding contributions to health-sciences librarianship. Chief among Bunting's many contributions has been serving as editor of the Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship, a critical desk-reference tool for health-sciences information professionals.

Jean Macalister Moore, 94, former head of the UCLA Arts Library, died at home in Brentwood on Aug. 21. Moore, an associate reference librarian at the Columbia University Library, came to UCLA Library's Reference Department in 1949 on a one-year exchange of staff members. She joined the UCLA Library staff in 1956 in the collections and services department of the newly established Arts Library. Moore subsequently served as the university's first art librarian and presided over the Arts Library's dramatic growth in distinction and size. It expanded from some 6,500 volumes in 1956 to more than 43,000 volumes by 1973.

Harold M. Somers, professor emeritus in UCLA's Department of Economics, died June 19 in Los Angeles at age 85 following a brief illness. The Toronto native served as chair of the department from 1961 to 1966, and as divisional dean of the College of Letters & Science from 1967 to 1970. Somers was instrumental in UCLA's decision to sponsor the Western Economic Journal in 1966. He served as co-editor of the publication from 1966 to 1970. Before coming to UCLA in 1960, Somers was dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Buffalo.

Bernard Towers, 78, a professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences whose research included work on fetal lungs, died Aug. 19 at his home in Pacific Palisades. Beginning in the late '60s, he taught in the departments of anatomy, pediatrics and psychiatry at the UCLA medical school. His research on fetal lungs led him to discover an anatomical part that he named the "pneumon." He also pioneered the examination of controversial issues in biomedical ethics by founding and leading the Medicine and Society Forum, along with Norman Cousins.

A memorial for Law Professor Gary T. Schwartz, who died this summer, will be held Oct. 29 from 4-6 p.m. in Korn Convocation Hall at The Anderson School.