Notables

Sarah Thomas, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, recently traveled to Germany to give numerous lectures on the research library in the digital age. Thomas discussed the introduction of new technologies, the interest in electronic publishing, and the issues of the Digital Library Federation, of which Cornell is a member. She also spoke in support of the AAU/Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) German Demonstration Project, a joint project with German research libraries for improved access to research materials in North America and Germany. The project has 22 participating libraries and is coordinated by a working group that is co-chaired by Thomas and Winston Tabb of the Library of Congress.

John G. Seeley, emeritus professor of floricultural science, was awarded the American Horticultural Society's highest honor, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Award, "for his significant contributions to the art and science of horticulture" at the society's annual conference in Nashville, Tenn., May 2. Seeley said he is particularly honored to win this award because the Cornell horticulturist after whom it is named was one of his idols. Seeley came to Cornell as an instructor of floriculture in 1941, and after the war and serving as a professor for seven years at Pennsylvania State University, returned to Cornell as a professor of horticulture from 1956 until his retirement in 1983, when he was awarded emeritus status. In 1982 and 1983 he was president of the American Society for Horticultural Science, and he currently is president and research committee chair of the Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation.

Barbara Reed, a graduate student in nutrition, was given the Graduate Student Award of the Society for International Nutrition Research at the Federation of Experimental Societies meeting in San Francisco in April. She was awarded for her work "Sales of food aid by refugees as sign of distress, not excess," authored with Jean-Pierre Habicht, the J. Jamison Professor of Nutrition.

May 21, 1998