International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal -- the first U.S. book dealing exclusively with cross-border deals -- is set to be published by John Wiley & Sons on Nov. 28.
Cornell announced today the endowment of a $50,000 fellowship, the IBM University Partnership Award, to support outstanding students of computer and computational science at Cornell. The fellowship, which will begin in Fall 1998, will be administered through the Cornell Theory Center.
A research consortium led by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations has been awarded a two-year $400,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for an international project titled "Workers in the Global Economy."
Robert S. Summers, the William G. McRoberts Research Professor in Administration of the Law, is co-editor, with D. Neil MacCormick, professor at the University of Edinburgh, of the recently published book Interpreting Precedent: A Comparative Study.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell has been awarded a $425,000 challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an endowment fund to strengthen the museum's education programming within the university.
Patrice Gaines, an African-American woman who survived batterings, sexual abuse and a prison sentence for heroin possession to become a prize-winning Washington Post reporter and author, will share her story and offer suggestions for implementing change in one's life Monday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium.
Author and poet Peter Balakian will speak on 'The Armenian Genocide and Inter-Generational Transmission of Trauma,' Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium.
Cornell is sponsoring the Sunday hours Oct. 19 at Tompkins County Public Library, and scholar-athletes and administrators from the East Hill campus will be on hand to read to children and assist library patrons.
