Leonard G. Austin, professor emeritus of fuels and mineral engineering, presented a paper, "The Modeling of Dry Grinding of Quartz in Tumbling Media Mills," co-authored with K. Yildrim and H. Cho, at the 9th European Symposium on Comminution in Albi, France.
John Comerford, associate professor of dairy and animal science, presented a seminar to the Agricultural Development Officers of Northern Ireland in Hillsborough, County Down, and at Greenmount College, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland.
Hector Flores, professor of plant pathology and biotechnology, organized and lectured at a two-week and workshop, "Frontiers in Plant Biology," sponsored by the American Society of Plant Physiologists at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto in Cordoba, Argentina.
Jack Schultz, professor of entomology, gave an invited lecture on "War and Pestilence: Bichemical Bases of Plant-Insect-Microbe Interactions" at Oxford University. Schultz also delivered a plenary address on "Plant Behavior: Critical to Bioprospecting" to the 20th International Conference on Microevolution in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Robert K. Selander, holder of the Eberly Family chair in biology, has been elected a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, the Mexican equivalent of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, founded in 1959, is an organization of scientists working in diverse institutions within Mexico, as well as those corresponding members in other countries who have contributed in various ways to the development of research in Mexico. Selander is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Dennis W. Thomson, professor and head of the Department of Meteorology, has been elected as an Institutional Trustee of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). UCAR is a research and service organization for the atmospheric sciences that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., for the National Science Foundation.
Barbara Uncapher, assistant professor of speech communication at Penn State New Kensington, was awarded the 1998 Carol Arnold Distinguished Award. Uncapher has been a member of Penn Stateís faculty for 31 years and is a member of the executive board of the Pennsylvania Association of two-year colleges.