Last month, Paul F. Goldsmith stepped down as director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Ithaca, New York. Goldsmith, who had served in that post for the past 10 years, plans to continue an affiliation with Cornell University, where he is the James Weeks Professor of Physical Science in the astronomy department.

In November, Steve B. Howell became a research professor in the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Riverside. He had headed the astrophysics group at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

The Canadian Chancellery of Honours has named Bill Buyers asone of the recipients of a Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Principal research officer with the National Research Council at Chalk River Laboratories, Buyers received the medal last month at a ceremony in Ottawa. The Commemorative Medal, created in 2002 to mark the...

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