Notables

Phyllis Moen, the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies and professor of sociology and human development, is the winner of the 2001 Distinguished Scholar Award for the Section of Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association. Moen was acknowledged as the winner at this year's business meeting for the section in Anaheim, Calif., Aug. 19. Linda K. George, chair of the section and professor of sociology at Duke University, reported to Moen that she received "many, many letters of endorsement from other distinguished scholars in the field. It is, of course, your beautiful work that merits the award, but I assure you that you would be thrilled at the volume and intensity of support for you." Moen, who also is the director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center at Cornell, will deliver the Distinguished Scholar Address at next year's annual meeting. Moen teaches and conducts research on life-course transitions and trajectories related to work and family careers over the life course, aging and gender stratification and family policy.

The American Sociological Association has named the late William Foote Whyte the recipient of its Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Whyte, a faculty member in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 1948 until his retirement in1979, died July 16, 2000. The award, one of nine given this year by the association, is one of its highest honors. Whyte was a specialist in organizational behavior and was regarded, during his career, as one of the foremost U.S. experts on employee-owned firms.