Dave Wohlhueter, director of sports communications, was chosen as the recipient of the 23rd annual Wilbur Snypp Award for meritorious service by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) during the recent 42nd College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) national workshop. Wohlhueter has been a member of NCBWA and CoSIDA for more than 30 years and served as president of NCBWA prior to his assignment as treasurer of CoSIDA in 1977. His 20-year tenure in the CoSIDA office is one of the longest in the organization's history.
Thomas Eisner, the Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology in the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London. Eisner was cited as a distinguished "pioneer in chemical ecology." The Royal Society is the British equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States and this year elected a total of six foreign members. Other Cornell members include Roald Hoffmann, Edwin Salpeter and Hans Bethe.
Robert M. Pool, professor of viticulture in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, received the Cantarelli Prize for 1995-96 from the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine at an official ceremony at the University of Perugia on July 11. Professor U. Pallotta, president of the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine, announced the juried award: "The jury. . . cites . . . your outstanding and original contributions to research in the mechanical regulation of crop load and fruit quality in grapes. The jury also notes that your research is and will continue to be significant in its impact on and consequences on the reduction of production costs for the vine and wine industry." The Cantarelli Prize carries an award of $10,000.
Nelson J. Shaulis, professor emeritus of horticultural science, received the American Society for Enology and Viticulture's (ASEV) highest award at the society's annual meeting in San Diego on July 2. The ASEV Merit Award recognizes outstanding individual achievement in the field of enology or viticulture and is given to those persons who have contributed to the field in an outstanding and distinguished manner. Shaulis retired from the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva in 1978.