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Benoit de Crombrugghe, chief of the gene-regulation section at the National Cancer Institute, has been named chairman of the department of genetics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Thmor Institute. De Crombrugghe's research has focused on the analysis and understanding of hereditary cancer and cancer susceptibility. He has been with the National Cancer Institute since 1963. In addition to his appointment as chairman, de Crombrugghe has been named to the first Paul and Mary Haas Chair in Genetics in Honor of Marie Whittle. Robert W. Corell, has been named head of the geosciences directorate of the National Science Foundation, the largest of the five divisions of the NSF. Corell is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, now on a two-year leave of absence. As head of the directorate, Corell will administer a budget that totaled $402 million in fiscal year '87. Tim O'Shea, who specializes in applying artificial intelligence techniques to educational problems, has been appointed to a personal chair in information technology and education at the Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K. O'Shea has been with the university since 1978, first as a lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology. In 1979 he founded the inter-faculty Computer Assisted Learning Research Group at OU. Before joining the Open University, O'Shea held research positions in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Texas. Peter Kemp, director of the Computing Center at Reading University, U.K., has been appointed director of computing service for the University of Glasgow. Before joining the staff at Reading University, Kemp was a visiting associate professor in computer and information science at the University of Delaware from 1982 to 1983. He has also held positions in mathematics and computing at Cambridge University and the University of Newcastle. He takes on his new post October 1. Jeremy A. Sabloff, professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, has been elected president-elect of the Society for American Archaeology. The new president of the 4,500-member society is Dena Dincauze, professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; she began her 2-year term of office last month. In other SAA elections, Lynne Goldstein, lecturer of fine arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has been named to a 1-year term as secretary-elect; next year she will begin a 3-year term as secretary. Nan Rothschild, of Barnard College, and Kathy Degan, of the Florida State Museum at the University of Florida, were elected to the 10-member executive committee of the society. Franz Anderson, professor of oceanography at the University of New Hampshire, has been named director of the university's Jackson Estuarine Laboratory. He succeeds Galen Jones, professor of microbiology, who has directed the facility since 1983. The Jackson Laboratory was built in 1970, funded by the National Science Foundation and the New England Regional Commission. Edward F Hayes, director of the division of chemistry at the National Science Foundation, will return to Rice University as associate provost, vice president for information systems and professor of chemistry. Hayes previously was a professor of chemistry at Rice from 1968 to 1978. He has also served as chairman of the NSF task force on advanced scientific computing resources. James J. Morgan, professor of environmental engineering science and vice president for student affairs, has been named the first Marvin L. Goldberger Professor at the California Institute of Technology. Morgan, a specialist in aquatic pollutants and water purification, has been with the university since 1965. The chair was named in honor of Caltech's recently retired president, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. The professorship was created with a $1.5 million gift from John G. Braun, a trustee of the Carl F. Braun Trust of Pasadena, Calif. Godwin Olu Patrick Obasi was unanimously reappointed secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations at last month's 10th World Meteorological Congress in Geneva. Obasi has been with the WMO since 1978, serving first with the secretariat in Geneva as director of the Education and Training Department. Prior to that he was an adviser to the Nigerian federal government in meteorological research and training and headed the Nigerian Institute for Meteorological Research and Training. Obasi will begin his second 4-year term in office at the WMO January 1, 1988. Awards John H. Seinfeld of the California Institute of Technology received the 1987 George Westinghouse Award at last week's annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education in Reno, Nev. Seinfeld, who has been a Caltech faculty member since 1967, is currently the Louis E. Nohl Professor and professor of chemical engineering, and executive officer for chemical engineering. He was a pioneer in the development of mathematical models of air pollution that are now used by the state of California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award includes a grant of $5,000. Norman Hackerman received the Parsons Award of the American Chemical Society, which recognizes outstanding public service by a member of the ACS. Hackerman is chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Welch Foundation, a Texas-based philanthropic organization that supports chemical research. He previously served as president of the University of Texas from 1967 to 1970, president of William Marsh Rice University from 1970 to 1985, and chairman of the National Science Board from 1974 to 1980. The Parsons Award includes a prize of $3,000. Alan Stockton, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, will also be honored at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Annual Meeting, as recipient of the 1987 Muhlmann Prize. This annual award honors outstanding scientific research performed at Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii. Stockton is being recognized for his detailed observations and theories relating to quasars. He has been a research scientist at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii since 1968. Viktor A. Hamburger last month received the first Fidia-Georgetown Award in Neuroscience, sponsored by the Fidia Research Foundation of Washington, D.C. He was recognized for his studies on how cell death affects the central nervous system and for his contributions to the discovery of nerve growth factor. Hamburger is Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Biology at Washington University, St. Louis, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The new award, to be presented every three years, includes an honorarium of $20,000. Norman H. Talk has won the Senior U.S. Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, an organization that promotes scientific cooperation between research institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. The award entitles him to a year of study in West Germany and a stipend worth about $40,000. Tolk specializes in atomic collision physics and the study of the dynamics of electronic processes at surfaces. He is a professor of physics and director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Atomic and Molecular Physics at Surfaces. Six winners of the 1987 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Awards have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy. Each will receive a prize of $10,000 at an awards ceremony July 30. The Lawrence Awards honor young scientists for outstanding contributions to the use or control of atomic energy. This years' recipients are: James Gordon, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Miklos Gyulassy, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Sung-Hou Kim, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley; James Kinsey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J. Robert Merriman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; David Moncton, Argonne National Laboratory. Edwin E. Salpeter, of Cornell University, has been named recipient of the 1987 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Salpeter is the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell. The annual award was established in 1898 to honor astronomers for a lifetime of extraordinary achievement. Salpeter will receive the Bruce Medal July 15 at the society's 99th annual meeting in California. Sir David R. Bates, research professor emeritus from Queen's University, Belfast, U.K., received the John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union. The annual award honors original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, and related sciences. Bates was honored for studies of the ionspheres of Earth and other planets. The award was presented at the AGU Spring Meeting last month. Three other awards, listed below, were also presented: William M. Kaula, professor of geophysics at the University of California at Los Angeles, received the Charles A: Whitten Medal of the AGU. The medal is presented every other year to honor "outstanding achievement in research on the form and dynamics of the Earth and planets." Kaula is on leave as chief of the National Geodetic Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Robert N. Clayton, Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, received the AGU William Bowie Medal, which honors. "outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and unselfish cooperation in research." Clayton was cited for his use of stable isotopes to study the chemical history of the Earth, moon and meteorites. J. Leslie Smith, associate professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, received the James B. Macelwane Medal of the AGU. The medal is presented annually to a young scientist for significant contributions to the geophysical sciences. Smith was honored for his contributions to the stochastic analysis of groundwater flow and prediction of mass transport in heterogeneous media. Deaths Doris E. Hadary, 69, Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at American University, died May 27 of cancer in Chevy Chase, Md. Hadary, who specialized in developing teaching methods for handicapped children, was the author of the book "Laboratory Science and Art for Blind, Deaf and Emotionally Disturbed Children." She had been with American University since 1962. Hadary received her undergraduate degree from the University of illinois and her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. New Publications Achievement In Radio: 70 Years of Radio Science, Technology, Standards and Measurement at the National Bureau of Standards (842 pages, 365 illustrations) covers the growth of the bureau's involvement in radio science, from the wavemeter calibrations of 1911 to today's integrated circuits and satellites. The authors, Wilbert E Snyder and Charles L. Bragaw, both worked at NBS from 1927 until they retired in the 1960s. The cost of the hardbound book is $55 (stock no. 003-003-12762-6). Contact: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office,. Washington, DC 20402; (202) 275-3030.

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