Faculty news

■ John G. Kemeny, professor of mathematics and president emeritus of the College, has been named the 1984 recipient of the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences Award. Presented for Kemeny s "brilliant contribution to the computer sciences and to the mathematical aspects of the social sciences," the award includes a $1,500 prize. The New York Academy of Sciences is an international membership organization of more than 45,000 scientists.

■ Marina Brownlee, associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature, will spend the 1985-86 academic year away from the classroom, working on a study of 14th-century comparative Spanish literary theory under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research has focused on late medieval Spanish literature; her current project involves changes in the tradition of clerkly poetry and in poetic theory during the 13th and 14th centuries. It is Brownlee's second NIH grant.

■ Poet Cleopatra Mathis, assistant professor of English, received a $20,000 prize from the National Endowment for the Arts. The award recognizes her work which includes two books of poetry, Aerial View of Louisiana and The BottomLand but places no stipulations on the use of the money. She intends to use it to spend a year in Provincetown, Mass., working on her third book of poetry.

■ David Parry, assistant professor of film, and his wife, Beverly, have received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts" to produce a film diary about women returning to the work force.

■ Albert J. Lavalley, associate professor of film, has been named director of film studies, succeeding Maurice Rapf '35. Lavalley, who holds a Ph.D. from Yale, is the author of Focus on Hitchcock, a work used in film courses throughout the country.