Notables

The American Society of Agricultural Engineers has named Norman R. Scott, professor of biological and environmental engineering, the 2002 winner of one of its most prestigious awards, the Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal Award. The award is given for exceptional and meritorious engineering achievement in agriculture. Scott was named winner of this year's award in honor of his outstanding accomplishments as an administrator and engineering society leader. An ASAE fellow and past president, Scott conducts research and teaches on the development of sustainable communities, with emphasis on biologically derived fuels, renewable energy, recycling and managed ecosystems. His research has focused on biothermal engineering for plants, animals and humans. ASAE is an international and technical organization with more than 9,000 members dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to biological, agricultural and food systems. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship.

The Business and Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association announced in July that Donald Schnedeker, director of the Johnson Graduate School of Management Library, has been given the 2002 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship. Schnedeker was honored for his yearly gathering and disseminating of the B&F Division's College and University Business Libraries (CUBL) statistics since 1988. Since taking over the survey, he has revised it yearly and disseminated it to project participants that include most of the top 30 U.S. business schools. He then has tabulated the data to produce an annual statistical report that covers a range of topics, such as collection size, acquisitions budget, staffing, computer use, business school enrollment by MBA program, faculty size, facilities, space use, circulation, reference and instruction statistics and database subscriptions. Schnedeker used some of this data as the basis for a 1999 article he wrote for the

For the past two years the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) has bestowed its most prestigious award to Cornell theatre studies graduate students. ATHE, the major professional organization for theater scholars and artists, presents these annual awards for scholarly work in theater theory and criticism. This year's winner, Derek Matson, received his award in July at the ATHE conference in San Diego and presented his paper, "Lost and Found in Translation: Intimacies of Text and Performance." His winning research is based on the "parallels that exist between an actor's art and a translator's art." Last year's winner of the ATHE 2002 Theory and Criticism Grad Award was Cornell theatre studies graduate student Harvey Young.