Robert Josefsberg ’59, a senior partner at the Miami-based law firm Podhurst Orseck, has been awarded the 2010 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award, the highest statewide pro bono award bestowed by the chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court.

Phil Hanlon ’77, the former vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs at the University of Michigan, has been named provost of the school. Martha Pollack ’79 has moved from dean of the school of information at the university to vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs, and Jeff MacKie Mason ’80 has advanced from associate dean to dean of the school of information.

Samuel W. Seymour ’79 has been installed as president of the New York City Bar Association. Seymour is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he concentrates on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement matters and internal investigations.

Yuki Kondo-Shah ’07 has been named a 2010 Charles B. Rangel Fellow through a program that encourages individuals seeking careers in the U.S. Foreign Service. The $85,000 fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State, will help Kondo-Shah pursue a master’s in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Daniel J. Berry ’80, M.D., has been elected first vice president of the board of directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Berry is currently an orthopedics professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and chair of the orthopedic surgery department at the Rochester, Minnesota, clinic.

Daniyal Mueenuddin ’86 of the southern Punjab region in Pakistan, has earned the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award—given to a “young writer of considerable literary talent for a work published in 2009”—for his short story collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

Ernest J. Babcock ’70 has been named vice president of General Dynamics, based in Falls Church, Virginia. Babcock was formerly vice president and general counsel at General Dynamics Land Systems in Michigan since July 2002.

Donald Bergman ’67, M.D., a clinical endocrinologist in private practice in New York City, was presented the Master of the American College of Endocrinology by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and its educational and scientific arm, the American College of Endocrinology.

David M. Kreps ’72, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. Kreps, who in 1989 won the association’s John Bates Clark Medal, stepped down last September after nine years as senior associate dean of the Stanford GSB.

David B. Fein ’82 of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, has been sworn in as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut. Fein had been a partner at the law firm of Wiggin and Dana since 1997, and before that served as an associate White House counsel to President Clinton.

George A. Beller ’62, M.D., earned a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology for his pioneering research in the field of cardiac imaging. Beller is a professor of cardiology in the cardiovascular medicine division at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville.

Jake Tapper ’91 of ABC News has won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. Tapper won the broadcast category for his story that revealed former Sen. Tom Daschle’s tax problems that derailed his nomination to be health and human services secretary.

Alice Mathias ’07, a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, won the 2010 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award for her short film, Message in a Bottle, about a romance born from a recycling project.