RUSSELL FERNALD, the Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, has been jointly awarded the Rank Prize in opto-electronics for "work on compensation for chromatic defocus in lenses of vertebrates." Fernald received the prize, which included a £10,000 award, during a Feb. 9 ceremony in London. He shares the Rank Prize with Ronald Kröger of Lund University in Sweden, Melanie Campbell of the University of Waterloo in Canada and Hans-Joachim Wagner of the University of Tübingen in Germany. Each recipient received a monetary award.

HENRY S. ROWEN, the Edward B. Rust Professor of Public Policy and Management, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, has been named a member of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. President George W. Bush appointed Rowen Feb. 12 to the nine-person bipartisan panel that will review the quality of the intelligence community's information regarding the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the U.S.-led war there. So far, no such weapons have been found. The commission is to report its findings and recommendations by March 31, 2005. Rowen, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1983, served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 1989 to 1991, chairman of the U.S. Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983, and deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 1961 to 1964.