Robert H. Frank, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics and Public Policy at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, has won the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for the best article published in the Southern Economic Journal in 1996-97. The paper, "What Price the Moral High Ground?" originally was presented as the Distinguished Guest Lecture at the 1995 convention of the Southern Economic Association; it was subsequently published in the Southern Economic Journal in July 1996 (Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 1-17).
Wayne Wilcox, associate professor of plant pathology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, has received the Lee M. Hutchins award, which is given for the best contribution to basic or applied research on diseases of perennial fruit plants, from the American Phytopathological Society at the society's recent annual meeting in Rochester. Wilcox's principal professional interests and contributions are in the areas of etiology, epidemiology and control of fungal diseases of fruit crops. He is widely known for his work on phytophthora diseases of raspberry, strawberry, cranberry, peach, cherry and apple. The Lee M. Hutchins Fund was established in 1979 with gifts from the estate of Dr. Lee M. Hutchins.
Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has been elected vice president of the American Comparative Literature Association, the professional organization of American comparatists. He will become president for the years 1999-2001. Culler has taught at Cornell since 1977 and has been chair of the Department of Comparative Literature (1993-96) as well as director of the Society for the Humanities. He has published numerous studies of literary criticism and theory, including On Deconstruction (1982) and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in November 1997.
Thomas W. Leavitt, professor emeritus of art history, has been named the 1997 recipient of the distinguished service award from the American Association of Museums. Leavitt served as director of Cornell's Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art from 1968 to 1973 and then was founding director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. He also taught art history at Cornell until his retirement in 1992.