Notables

Karel Husa, the Kappa Alpha Professor of Music Emeritus, has been awarded the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Husa, an internationally known composer who came from his native Czechoslovakia in 1954 to teach at Cornell, was cited for bringing "the gift of music to the world for over 40 years" through his composing, conducting and teaching.

Nell Mondy, professor emerita of nutritional science, food science and toxicology, has had a laboratory named in her honor at Ouachita Baptist University, her alma mater, in Arkadelphia, Ark. The Nell I. Mondy Organic Chemistry Laboratory is in the Harvey Jones Science Center. Also at OBU is the Nell Mondy Lecture Series, established in 1991, to bring experts in chemistry, food science and nutrition to the OBU campus. Mondy has been on the Cornell faculty for 48 years.

Robert S. Summers, the William G. McRoberts Research Professor of Law, was elected May 7 as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to legal philosophy and jurisprudence. He has lectured widely in Europe, Great Britain and the United States on various topics in the theory of law. During the 1985 spring semester, Summers was a visiting Fulbright professor at the University of Vienna. In the summer of 1990, he was a member of the Annual Salzburg Seminar Faculty, and in December of 1995 he delivered three lectures at the University of Vienna on the formal character of law.