Notables

Ritch C. Savin-Williams, professor of developmental and clinical psychology in the Department of Human Development, received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from Division 44 of the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues of the American Psychological Association during its August 2001 meetings. Savin-Williams, whose book, Mom, Dad. I'm Gay has received national media attention, including interviews with Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, BBC's Channel 4 and Parents Magazine, will appear on MTV's "True Life: I'm Coming Out" program in January 2002.

Francis Moon, the Joseph Ford Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a grant from the Humboldt Foundation of Germany to study the history of Cornell's famous Reuleaux collection of machine mechanisms. Cornell's first president, Andrew Dickson White, purchased this collection, numbering close to 250 cast iron and brass models, in 1882. More than a century later, the collection of kinematic models is one of the largest of its kind. Moon has been acting as curator of the collection and is writing a book about the creator of the models, Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905). The Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is hoping to build an endowment to preserve and display these historical models.