Rachel P. Maines, an independent scholar who is employed as a technical processor in the Nestle Library in Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, is the recipient of this year's Herbert Feis Prize in recognition.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships have been awarded to 14 Cornell students, five of them undergraduates in their senior year.
Sir Michael Berry, the Royal Society Research Professor at Bristol University, returns to Cornell in his role as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large to meet with students and faculty and present several lectures.
Anthony Milner, the Basham Professor of Asian History and dean of the faculty of Asian Studies at Australian National University, will deliver the fifth Frank H. Golay Memorial Lecture.
A gold mine of information collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census but previously inaccessible to researchers could be used to tackle a range of social issues, according to John M. Abowd, professor of labor economics in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
A new book by a world-renowned Cornell labor economist and an Oxford scholar shows how established employment practices - how people are hired and trained - are being challenged in seven industrialized countries, including the United States.
