Jared M. Diamond, professor of physiology in the School of Medicine, is sharing the 2001 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and its $200,000 cash award with Smithsonian biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy for their pioneering work in the field of conservation biology. The prize, administered by the University of Southern California, is the premier award for environmental science, energy and medicine. A winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a 1999 National Medal of Science, Diamond has won world recognition for his theories relating species-extinction rates to habitat size.... Peter J. Taylor will be president-elect of The UCLA Foundation, effective July 1. A senior vice president at the Los Angeles offices of the investment banking firm Lehman Brothers, Inc., he will serve one year as president-elect before succeeding Keenan Behrle as president. Taylor has served on UCLA Foundation boards for many years and is currently a member of the External Relations, Investment, and Governors Outreach committees. He also was a University of California regent and president of the UCLA Alumni Association.

The Western Society for Pediatric Research has awarded Edward R.B. McCabe, physician-in-chief of Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, the Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. Education Award. McCabe, professor and executive chair of the Department of Pediatrics, oversees the pediatric residency program at UCLA.... Lisa Feldman has been named director of the Chancellor's Associates Program in Development. She has worked on behalf of the campus' annual giving programs since 1983, most recently as director of the Parents' Fund.... Kathy Sipes is the new director of volunteer services at the UCLA Medical Center. She will oversee more than 2,000 volunteers and will handle their training, recruitment and placement. She previously managed volunteer services at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance.... Eduardo Schwartz, professor of finance at The Anderson School, is the recipient of the Financial Analysts Journal's 2000 Graham and Dodd Award for his article, "Rational Pricing of Internet Companies." The award was established in 1960 to recognize excellence in financial writing.

Norman Q. Brill, 89, founding director of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, died April 8 in Los Angeles after a long illness. Brill was a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and a longtime consultant with the U.S. Army. As chief of psychiatry at the Office of the Surgeon General, his study of war-related psychosis set a new standard for military psychiatry in the ensuing years. Brill came to UCLA in 1953 and became the first chairman of psychiatry. He helped develop and fund the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, which today ranks among the premier psychiatric clinical and research settings in the world. Brill also helped organize the Department of Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance and psychiatric services at the West Los Angeles VA Hospital.