assessment of pharmacodynamic endpoints. The TL is located in an 800-square foot room on the 9th floor of the Bressler Research Building, just across the bridge from the UMGCC 9W inpatient hospital. The building also includes space for a liquid nitrogen storage room, cold room, centrifuge and freezer room, dark room, and radioisotope area. Animal work can be performed in the vivarium, which is operated by Veterinary Resources of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Space in two holding rooms, allocated to TL, can house immunocompetent or immunodeficient mice. Currently, the TL has five staff members: the director; two members dedicated to assay development, collection, and analysis of clinical samples for effects of drugs on proposed molecular targets and affected pathways; and two postdoctoral fellows dedicated toNovember 5, 2003
Library of Congress Announces Winner of First John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James H. Billington, announced today the award of the first John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences to Leszek Kolakowski. Professor Kolakowski (pictured at right), who now resides in Oxford, England, was born in Radom, Poland, in 1927, is a philosopher focused on important questions, an historian of human thought, an essayist of enormous range, and an outstanding spokesman for, and exemplar of, European culture.

The Kluge Prize of one million dollars is given for lifetime achievement in the humanities and social sciences -- areas of scholarship for which there are no Nobel Prizes. These disciplines include philosophy, history,