DIMACS Member Saharon Shela (a permanent part-year faculty member at Rutgers University) received the highly prestigious Wolf Prize for 2001. The Wolf Foundation was established in 1976 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf (1887-1981), inventor, diplomate, and philanthropist, and his wife, Francisca Subirana-Wolf (1900-1981), "to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind." Based in Israel, the Wolf Foundation awards five science prizes each year, in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and physics, and also in the arts. Each award carries a $100,000 prize. Shelah was cited for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.