Siasela Bok, a lecturer at Harvard who last fall accepted tenure at BRandis University, has been awarded the Abram L. Sachar Award at BRandis for outstanding contributions to American society.

Bok will receive the Sachar award, a tribute to BRandis founding president and current chancellor presented every year by the 65,000 member BRandeis University Women's Committee, on June?

Bok, who moves to BRandeis this fall, will be the first woman tenured professor in the Wakham university's Philosophy and History of Ideas Department.

Before teaching Moral Reasoning 24, "Moral Choice and Personal Responsibilty" for three years at HArvard, Bok taught for seven years in the Kennedy School of Government and the Medical School.

Bok has also authored two books, "Secrets on the Ethics of Concreatment and Revelation" in 1982 and "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life," the 1978 winner of the Melcher and George Orwell Awards from the national Council of Teachers of English.

She is President Bok's wife.