Notables

Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, professor of ecology and systematics and former director of the South Asia Program, is representing that program and the university at the World Congress of Paleoanthropology, June 28 to July 8 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Approximately 4,000 paleoanthropologists are expected to attend the conference, which is organized by Phillip Tobias, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, and hosted by the University of Witwatersrand. Kennedy will present papers on "Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominids of South Asia" and "Recent Advances in the Paleoanthropology of South Asia." Those topics also are addressed in his forthcoming book, God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia.

Robert W. Howarth, the Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, has been appointed chair of the National Research Council's Committee on the Causes and Management of Coastal Eutrophication. The National Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. At Cornell, Howarth is the director of the Program in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change, a unit of the Center for the Environment. His committee assignment continues through March 2000.