Frank H.T. Rhodes, president of Cornell University for the past 10 years, was nominated to the National Science Board by President Reagan last month. He will succeed Donald B. Rice of the Rand Corporation on the 24-member policymaking board of the National Science Foundation. Before joining Cornell, Rhodes was a professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1977, serving for three years as dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and later as vice president for academic affairs. Prior to that he was a professor and head of the Department of Geology at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1956 to 1968. Rhodes' nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.

James Green, Daniel Prince and June Bradlaw have been appointed to the 13-member Scientific Advisory Board of the International Foundation for Ethical Research. Green is director of toxicology at CIBA-GEIGY, Prince is...

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