Notables

Francille M. Firebaugh, dean of the College of Human Ecology, has been named a member of the committee that will conduct a nationwide search for a successor to SUNY Chancellor Thomas A. Bartlett, who on April 30 announced his resignation from that post by June 15. Thomas A. Egan, chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, will chair the 23-member search committee that includes six other members of the SUNY board, five campus presidents, the University Faculty Senate president, elected leaders of the Student Assembly, and representatives from the Association of Boards of Trustees of Community Colleges, a campus college council, central and campus administration and United University Professions. Firebaugh served a rotation as statutory dean representative on the SUNY Council of Presidents under Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone in 1992-93. Along with other statutory deans, she has regularly participated in the SUNY Chancellor's Forum under the leadership of Johnstone and Bartlett.

Robert R. Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, has been named to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The new standing committee, appointed by the EPA's assistant administrator for research and development, is charged with evaluating science and engineering research programs, laboratories and research-management practices and providing advice on the utilization of peer review to enhance the quality of science of EPA. A biogeochemist, Howarth is on the faculty of the Division of Biological Sciences and the Department of Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences, as well as a Senior Fellow in the Center for the Environment.

Two Cornell medical experts have been appointed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to an independent task force to review the ethical integrity of the science and humane treatment of animals on the upcoming Bion 11 and 12 missions: Franklin M. Loew, D.V.M., Ph.D., dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Jeffrey Borer, M.D., the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Cornell University Medical College. The Bion program is a cooperative space venture among the U.S., Russian and French space agencies to conduct biomedical research using rhesus monkeys. Bion 11 is expected to launch from Russia in September 1996.