The five-year, $2.29 million grant supports “exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high biomedical impact."
Provost Kent Fuchs has named Robert Smith, ILR associate dean, professor of economics and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, interim dean of the ILR School, effective Nov. 14.
Harry Katz, the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been appointed interim provost, President David J. Skorton announced Oct. 24. Katz will begin his new position Nov. 14.
Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen spoke on campus Oct. 22 about Vladimir Putin's use of homophobia to retain control of Russia.
