The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship has been established for an ILR assistant professor who engages in scholarly work in conflict resolution and collective bargaining. (Nov. 3, 2010)
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
The 15th annual symposium will feature 88 engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who are performing 'exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.'
Events on campus include the sixth annual town-gown awards, the Cornell Concerto Competition, classical and jazz performances, and "Casablanca" in Willard Straight Hall.
Six Cornell researchers will receive grants totaling more than
$3 million as part of the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.
Events this week include a legal debate on voting rights, a Cornell astronomy-themed family night at the Museum of the Earth, a classic horror film in Sage Chapel and "Sweeney Todd" in Risley Theatre.
Martha L. Dewey, co-founder and artistic director of the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble, was killed in an automobile accident June 26. She was 55. (June 29, 2009)
Events on campus this week include a reading by Chinese-American writer Marilyn Chin, a debate with cake for the ILR School's 70th anniversary, IvyQ, and an talk on earthquake forecasting.