Richard N. White, the James A. Friend Family Professor of Engineering, has been elected president of the American Concrete Institute. White, who was installed as the ACI's 47th president in April for a one-year term, served a two-year term as vice president. He has been at Cornell for more than 35 years and is former chairman of ACI's Technical Activities Committee. He is a fellow of the institute, and his honors include the Joe W. Kelly Award in 1992 for "outstanding contributions to education in concrete as a teacher, researcher, author and academic administrator."
David W. Pfennig, a former postdoctoral associate in neurobiology and behavior, is the winner of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology's Frank Pitelka Award in Behavioral Ecology for "the most important contribution to our subject during the past two years." Pfennig, an assistant professor of zoology at the University of North Carolina, was cited for a paper, "Kin recognition and cannibalism in polyphenic salamanders" in the journal Behavioral Ecology. Co-authors of the paper were Paul Sherman, professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell, and James P. Collins of Arizona State University.
Edward Cohen-Rosenthal, director of the Work and Environment Initiative in the Cornell Center for the Environment, has been appointed by the State Department as an official member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly Special Meeting on Agenda 21 follow-up with a focus on workers and their unions. One of nine private-sector advisers out of a total delegation of 30 at the New York City meeting this month, Cohen-Rosenthal was nominated by the Citizen's Network for Sustainable Development with the endorsement of the AFL-CIO.