APPLAUSE

The Alzheimer’s Association of Los Angeles is honoring Harry V. Vinters with its 2002 Research Award for his prolific body of work dedicated to improving the lives of Alzheimer’s patients and their families. Vinters is chief for the Section of Neuropathology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the Neuropathology Core of the UCLA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.... Mike Padilla, a writer in Donor Stewardship Programs in the Development Office, has received a California Arts Council Artists Fellowship in Literature. The highly competitive prize recognizes exemplary California artists and is awarded once every four years.... Nancy Jo Bush, a lecturer in nursing, received the Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse of the Year Award from the Oncology Nursing Society, a national organization representing more than 30,000 registered nurses.... BruinGO!, UCLA’s public bus-transportation program for students, faculty and staff, has received the Westside Prize from the Santa Monica-based Westside Urban Forum. The award goes to projects or programs that demonstrate excellence in city-making and community-building.... Alison Bunting, associate university librarian for sciences and director of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents. She is only the third librarian to serve as chair of the board, which advises the Health and Human Services secretary and assistant secretary for health.

AWARDS

Peter McLaren, professor of education, became the inaugural recipient of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Award at Chapman University. The award recognizes educators whose scholarship and activism best exemplify the principles and practices of Freire, former minister of education for Sao Paulo, Brazil.... Chelsea Kidwell, assistant professor of neurology, received the 2002 Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize from the American Academy of Neurology. The academy awards the prize to young neurologists with a special interest in stroke research.... Donald C. Sheppard has received a $500,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award. He is a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute in Torrance.... The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA presented its highest award, the Trowel Award, to Professors Giorgio Buccellati and Merrick Posnansky. The award symbolizes dedication to the field of archaeology and to the Cotsen Institute. Buccellati is the founding director of the institute, and Posnansky has been instrumental in expanding the institute and developing new programs.

IN MEMORIAM

Wesley J. Liebeler, professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law and a professor at George Mason University School of Law, died Sept. 25 in a plane crash in New Hampshire. A licensed pilot, Liebeler had been taking a lesson in a private plane at the time of the accident. He was 71. A critic of the old antitrust law of the 1950s and ’60s that put the interests of business owners and managers above those of consumers, Liebeler helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court to change its interpretation of the Sherman and Clayton Acts so that consumer welfare became a much more important criterion of its decisions.

Born in Langdon, N.D., in 1931, Liebeler received a B.A. from Macalester College in 1953 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1957. Following graduation, he practiced with the Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn and was later appointed to the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1965, he joined the faculty at the UCLA School of Law and taught antitrust for more than 30 years, taking a brief leave in 1975-76 to become director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation in Washington, D.C. While there, he successfully urged the commission to challenge anticompetitive restraints enforced by state boards and commissions, such as restrictions on retail price advertising of eyeglasses and prescription drugs. In 1999, Liebeler became professor of law at George Mason University School of Law and taught courses in antitrust and constitutional political economy.