Notables

• David Block, Ibero-American bibliographer for Cornell libraries, was awarded the Howard P. Cline Memorial Prize for his book Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). This award, presented at the American Historical Association's 1996 meeting, recognizes the best work in Latin American ethnohistory published in the past two years.

• Chung L. Tang, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering at Cornell, has been named a recipient of the 1996 Charles Hard Townes Award by the Optical Society of America. The award, for outstanding contributions to quantum electronics, was presented to Tang for seminal and pioneering advances in the field of nonlinear optics and laser physics. The Townes Award will be presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, June 2-7, in Anaheim, Calif.

• Bernard L. Han '86, ME '87, MBA '88, has been selected by America West Airlines as vice president of financial planning and analysis.

• Al Jerome '64, who spent 26 years in broadcasting with NBC, CBS and ABC, has been named president and chief executive officer of KCET, Los Angeles' flagship public television station.