Notables

Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, professor of geological sciences, will give the keynote address at the University of North Carolina-Asheville's commencement ceremony, May 17. Rhodes also will be awarded the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters. Rhodes holds three degrees from the University of Birmingham, England, and is a former Fulbright scholar and Fulbright distinguished fellow, a National Science Foundation senior visiting research fellow, a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science and education. He is the former chair of the American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the National Science Board. He currently is serving as president of the American Philosophical Society.

David B. Wilson, professor of molecular biology and genetics, and Stephen C. Winans, professor of microbiology, have been elected as fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology. The academy is the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, the world's oldest life science organization, with more than 43,000 members. Academy fellows are elected through a highly selective peer review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Eighty fellows were elected to the academy in 2003.

Professor of finance and accounting Charles Lee won the Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award for 2003 from the American Accounting Association, the premier organization of accounting scholarship and practice. Lee is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and director of the Parker Center for Investment Research at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. The award recognizes a paper he co-wrote with Richard Frankel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Accounting valuation, market expectation, and cross-sectional stock returns," that was published in 1998 in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 25. The paper was the first to show it is possible to predict stock returns using a refined valuation model that incorporates analyst earnings forecasts. The valuation technique introduced by Lee and his colleague is now used by many money managers in their stock selection process. The award, which comes with a $2,500 stipend, will be formally presented at the AAA Annual Meetings in Hawaii this August.

The Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations has announced the winners of the Harrison M. Trice Award for the Best Undergraduate Research Paper on Alcohol and Other Drugs and Campus Life. The winner of the $1,000 prize is Maia Hunnex for her study of deterrence theory and drunk driving. A $500 award for honorable mention was also given to Jaclyn Bernstein, Kate Levitsky and Jennifer Levitsky for their study of a sorority's changing drinking culture. Copies of the papers can be found on the Smithers Web site: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/extension/smithers/.

Cornell Abroad has announced that three Cornell undergraduate students have won Freeman-Asia Awards for study abroad in East and Southeast Asia in Fall 2003. The following students were awarded $5,000 grants for study abroad as a result of their success in this national competition:

·Irene Chung, Arts and Sciences, for study at the IES (Institute for the International Education of Students) Tokyo Program in Makuhari New City, just outside Tokyo. Chang is a computer science major.

·Catherine Mendez, Arts and Sciences, who majors in linguistics and Asian studies, for study during the fall at International Christian University in Miitaka, Japan.

·Michelle Wong, Arts and Sciences, a College Scholar interested in sociology, who plans to study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Undergraduate students planning to study abroad in East Asia or Southeast Asia may be eligible to apply for Freeman-Asia Awards. Richard Gaulton, director of Cornell Abroad, serves as the on-campus adviser for the program and can provide the necessary confirmation of the information that candidates must supply in the application. Freeman-Asia Awards for study in East and Southeast Asia are sponsored by the Freeman Foundation and administered by IIE, the Institute of International Education. Information about the awards and applications are on the IIE web site at: http://www.iie.org/programs/freeman-asia/.

Freeman Awards are $3,000 for summer, $5,000 for a semester and $7,000 for an academic year. Applications for spring 2004 awards are due Nov. 1, 2003.