Notables

Nell Mondy, professor emerita of nutritional science, food science and toxicology, has been honored with a plaque at the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y., to commemorate her accomplishments and special place in women's history. Mondy recently has had a laboratory named in her honor at Williams Baptist College in her home state of Arkansas. The Mondy Chemistry Laboratory is in the Sloan Center for Science and Professional Studies. Among her many accomplishments, Mondy is credited with contributing to the formation of the Agriculture Research Service-National Potato Council's National Potato Research Program in 1987 that allocated millions of dollars to potato researchers; she also served as supervisory food specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mondy is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and Institute of Food Technologists.

Barbara Knuth, associate professor of natural resource policy and management and co-leader of the human dimensions research unit, has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to serve a two-year term on the federally chartered Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council. The council advises the secretary of the interior, through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director, about sport fishing and boating issues, promoting the value of healthy aquatic resources, increasing public support for the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, fostering stewardship and conservation ethics, restoring and conserving aquatic resources and increasing communication and consensus among groups representing industry, government and anglers and boaters.

Christopher Ober, professor and director of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was on one of the two teams of researchers who shared the SRC/SSA/International Sematech (ISMT) award for research in manufacturing and environment, safety and health. His research into environmentally benign semiconductor processing techniques won a $5,000 award, to be split among the winners. The award was presented at the annual meeting of the Semiconductor Safety Association in Arlington, Va., April 26. One of the two winning submissions, "Environmentally Benign Lithography for Semiconductor Manufacturing," was presented by Ober; Gina Weibel, a Cornell materials science and engineering graduate student; and Karen K. Gleason and Hilton G. Pryce Lewis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Co-winners were IMEC of Belgium, a leading center for microelectronics research. SSA is an international organization of environmental health and safety professionals. SRC is a consortium of semiconductor industry companies and government agencies. ISMT is a non-profit research and development consortium. Ober also has been elected chair of the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society for 2000.