Professor Ourida Mostefai has been honored by the French Society, L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques with a promotion to the rank of Officer. The awarding of the promotion and associated decoration will take place in a ceremony on September 6, 2017, at the French Consul’s residence, in Cambridge, Mass. L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was established in 1808 by Napoléon in order to honor excellence in French education. The Palmes Académiques is the oldest non-military French decoration.