Vishal Gaur, the Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management and professor of operations, technology and information management, has been named the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.
In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel are joined by two members of the newly formed Office of Talent Attraction and Recruitment team at Cornell for a conversation about creating connection in a world where many employees are working remotely.
Nearly 400 participants attended the fourth annual Inclusive Excellence Summit, sponsored by the Department of Inclusion and Belonging, which took place on April 18 and 19 and offered staff, faculty and community members an opportunity to learn and develop inclusive behaviors in the workplace.
Nigel Lockyer, an accomplished physicist and laboratory leader, has been selected as the new director at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE). Lockyer comes to Cornell with a wealth of experience in physics and accelerator sciences, having most recently served as the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab).
In this episode of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel are joined by Cyrus Hamilton-Ferguson, assistant director of Student Disability Services at Cornell, for a conversation about how his personal and professional lives have intertwined over time and while working at the university.
Christopher James Cowen, senior vice president and chief financial officer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been named Cornell’s next executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1.
The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement’s new Academic Initiatives team will focus on the Engaged College Initiative, faculty development and global engagement programming, and research examining the institutional impacts of community-engaged learning.
Cornell’s Office of General Counsel, to engage proactively with groups across campuses, is planning a series of four workshops designed to educate Cornell community members on common legal challenges in higher education.
Edward Dean Wolf, a pioneer in nanofabrication who joined Cornell in 1978 as the first director of what would become the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, died March 11 in Ithaca. He was 87.
The Inclusive Wellness Series, sponsored by Cornell’s Department of Inclusion and Belonging in partnership with the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, hosted a well-attended public talk with Dr. Leah Hollis on March 10 about her research on workplace bullying in higher education.