Notables

The New York State Nursery/Landscape Association has announced that Wayne A. Sinclair, professor emeritus of plant pathology, is the 2000 recipient of the association's Gold Medal of Horticulture Award. Each year this award is given by the New York Nursery/Landscape Association to someone who, in the judgement of the Gold Medal of Horticulture Committee and the board of directors of the association, has made outstanding contributions to horticulture in New York state. Said an industry spokesperson: "Dr. Sinclair is being recognized for his outstanding teaching, extension outreach and research that has contributed to our understanding of woody plant diseases. Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students who have entered the field of horticulture have been significantly influenced by Dr. Sinclair's effective teaching during his 37-year tenure as a member of the Cornell faculty." The award will be presented to Sinclair Friday, Aug. 25, at a ceremony held in the Court of Honor, New York State Fairgrounds in conjunction with the New York State Fair.

George T. Milkovich has been selected as the 2000 Keystone Award winner of WorldatWork. Milkovich, the Martin P. Catherwood Professor at Cornell's School of Industrial Relations, is an expert in employee compensation and international human resource management. WorldatWork, formerly the American Compensation Association, is a 45-year-old global not-for-profit professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in disciplines associated with attracting, retaining and motivating employees. Its more than 25,000 members are primarily human resources educators, professionals and consultants. The Keystone Award is the highest honor granted by WorldatWork and recognizes the contributions its winner has made to the organization and the profession. Milkovich is a founder of the ILR School's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), a partnership of more than 50 international corporations and Cornell and has been its research director and director of international programs. He received the Keystone Award at WorldatWork's 2000 International Conference and Exposition May 22 in Seattle.

This year's undergraduate Messenger-Chalmers Prize has been awarded to Adam J. Sacks for his College Scholar honors thesis, "Aesthetics beyond Bildung." The Messenger-Chalmers Prize Committee praised Sacks' thesis as a remarkably bold, original and well-grounded analysis of a new "catastrophic aesthetics" growing out of the deepening predicament of German Jewish artists and intellectuals during the 1930s and early 1940s. The prize, which carries with it a cash award of $750, is awarded each year to a Cornell undergraduate whose honors essay gives "evidence of the best research and the most fruitful thought in the field of human progress and evolution of civilization during some period in human history or during human history as a whole."