Wendell Bell Receives Futures Award.

Yale sociologist Wendell Bell has received a Bloomberg Award in Futures Excellence for 2000. The annual award recognizes individuals at the national and international level who promote a vision of the future established on principles of social justice.

Bell, who serves on the editorial

advisory board of Futures Research Quarterly, has taught a course entitled "Social Change and the Future" at Yale. He is the author of the two-volume The Foundations of the Futures Field, published in 1996. In this work, Bell focuses on developing the field's ethical foundations. Moving beyond cultural relativism, he explains how universal human values came to exist and how they ought to be changed to permit all people to live good, long lives in the coming global society.

The Bloomberg Awards were initiated in 1997 in honor of educator Warner Bloomberg, a proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to urban planning and futures studies.