Notables

Roberts S. Summers, the McRoberts Research Professor of Law, was elected May 7 as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to legal philosophy and jurisprudence. He has authored many books and articles in these fields and has lectured widely in Europe, Great Britain and the United States on various topics in the theory of law. During the 1985 spring semester, Summers was a visting Fulbright Professor at the University of Vienna. In the summer of 1990, he was a member of the Annual Salzburg Seminar Faculty. In December of 1995 he delivered three lectures at the University of Vienna on the Formal Character of Law.

Elizabeth Hess, a nurse practitioner at Gannett Health Center, has been selected as one of two representatives of the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance, and one of 46 representatives from organizations across the country, to serve on the National Review Panel of the congressionally mandated Breast Cancer Research Program. This year the Breast Cancer Research Program will be responsible for allocating $75 million in federal funds to research projects on the treatments, cause and potential cures for breast cancer. The panel begins meetings in Washington this month.