Notables

Fred Schneider, professor of computer science, is one of 12 national authorities on computer security named to the newly formed Advisory Committee on Security and Privacy created by the Association for Computing Machinery. The purpose of the group is to provide objective advice to the computing community, the public at large and to policy-makers on emerging issues of information security, reliability and privacy. Members of the group will provide testimony, interviews, briefings and statements, as required. Schneider chaired the Committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness convened by the National Research Council in 1996 and is the editor of Trust in Cyberspace (National Academy Press, 1999), the book reporting the committee's findings. He is the head of the Information Assurance Institute, in which Cornell computer scientists work in collaboration with scientists at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Rome, N.Y., on computer security and reliability issues.

Nimat Hafez Barazangi, a research fellow at the Women's Studies Program, was awarded the 2002 United Nations Fellowship to Syria under the program Transfer of Knowledge Through Expatriates Nationals (TOKTEN). This is the second time that the U.N. has awarded Barazangi such a fellowship towards building a web-based curriculum in the Arabic environment for language learning, literacy and participatory feminism. A specialist in curriculum and instruction, Arabic and Islamic studies, and adult and community education, Barazangi is collaborating with Arabic linguists, teachers of Arabic and computer specialists at the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology in Damascus, Syria.

Leland Carmichael, the John M. Olin Professor Emeritus of Virology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, received the Mark L. Morris Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to companion animal health at the North American Veterinary Conference Jan. 12 in Orlando, Fla. In more than 45 years of research at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, Carmichael developed diagnostic tests and vaccines for major viral infectious diseases of dogs, including canine adenovirus and canine parvovirus and is credited with saving the lives of millions of dogs worldwide. Working in the realm of contagious repercussive diseases of animals, Carmichael also identified three different agents that cause abortions or neonatal death, then developed tests, vaccines or treatment regimens for them.

The award is named for the late founder of the food company, Hill's Pet Nutrition, and of the Morris Animal Foundation. The company donated $20, 000 to the foundation in Carmichael's name. An earlier recipient of the Morris prize, in 1996, was Robert W. Kirk, professor emeritus of clinical science in the veterinary college.

The American Immigration Law Association (AILA) awarded the Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Award to Stephen Yale-Loehr, who has been an adjunct professor at the Law School for the past 11 years and is editor-in-chief of Cornell International Law Journal. The AILA created the award in 1996 to honor teachers who have made significant contributions to the field of immigration and nationality law as well as those who have inspired students to enter the practice of immigration law.