Edward J. Lawler, dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and a scholar of organizational behavior, is the recipient of the 2001 Cooley-Mead Award.
Events this week include a Literary Luncheon with Alice Fulton; dance a la Paris at the Schwartz Center; an environmental film series; and Israel's Consul General on the Mideast peace process. (Oct. 7, 2009)
Katerina Papoulia, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). She will receive five-year funding of $408,890 to support her research. Early Career awards are the NSF's most prestigious honor for new faculty members, recognizing and supporting teacher-scholars who are considered most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. (February 26, 2003)
Shibley Telhami, well known expert on Arab-Israeli relations, will be guest speaker at the Peace Studies Program's lunchtime seminar Thursday, Oct. 4, at 12:15 p.m. in G-08 Uris Hall.
Researchers are interested not only in what happens when you combine two chemicals, but also in how the bonds between these chemicals are formed. That understanding might lead to better control over chemical reactions and perhaps even the creation of complex molecules with unusual properties.
James A. Perkins, who as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969 led the campus during its most tumultuous years of social change, died August 19 in Burlington, Vt. He was 86.
On May 8, President David Skorton will confer the Cornell M.D. degree on the 15 members of the Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar Class of 2008 in a ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Doha.
At the Latino Living Center Feb. 12, students discussed 'Who is an Indian? Defining Indigeneity in the Modern United States.' The event was part of the Cafe con Leche series sponsored by the center. (Feb. 16, 2010)
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to write information to magnetic material that could lead to new computer memory chips that will have a very high storage capacity and will be non-volatile, meaning they would not require a constant electric current flowing to maintain stored information.