To launch the new Anne Evans Estabrook Distinguished Lectureship in Conflict Resolution at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Associate Professor Elizabeth Mannix of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business will give a talk Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. in room 115 of the new ILR Classroom Building.

The lecture, "The Dynamic Nature of Conflict: A Longitudinal Study of Taskgroups," is co-sponsored by the Institute for Conflict Resolution at Cornell.

Mannix, whose academic expertise focuses on negotiation, power and influence, particularly within teams, teaches courses on managerial negotiations and organizational behavior. She recently has published articles on interest alignment and coalitions in multiparty negotiations, group composition and decision-making and on the uses and misuses of power in task-performing teams. She is the co-editor of the 1998 book Research on Managing Groups and Teams and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Conflict Management. She earned a B.A. degree from Roosevelt University in 1983 and a Ph.D. in behavioral science from the University of Chicago in 1989.

The Anne Evans Estabrook Distinguished Lectureship in Conflict Resolution was established earlier this year in alumna Estabrook's name and is funded through her contributions to the ILR School. The series supports the commitment of ILR to conflict resolution and will bring to campus about twice a semester distinguished scholars from other universities and from Cornell who are at varied career stages to discuss their research.

"Anne Estabrook is one of the ILR School's most stalwart and dedicated supporters," says ILR Dean Edward Lawler. "This distinguished lectureship series is a part of her commitment to the conflict resolution area and will be integrated with the endowed professorship in conflict resolution that Anne has established."

Estabrook, with a B.S. degree in ILR in 1965 and an MBA in 1966, both from Cornell, is a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees and its Academic Advisory, Real Estate and Cultural Affairs committees. Since 1984, she has been a member of the Cornell Real Estate Council and

its Student Housing Committee. In addition, she recently completed an eight-year appointment on the ILR School's Advisory Council. In 1987 she was named to the ILR Honor Roll, and in 1997 she became the school's first recipient of the Jerome Alpern Award for distinguished service to the ILR School.

Estabrook, who lives in Summitt, N.J., with her husband, Kenneth, also a Cornellian (A.B. '49, LLB '51), is the owner of Elberon Development Co., a New Jersey business specializing in the development, leasing and management of industrial and commercial real estate. In 1995, she was elected the first woman president of the New Jersey State Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, a real estate trade organization. Reflecting her interest in revitalizing the urban areas of New Jersey, she was appointed by the governor to be a member of the governing boards of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the Corporation for Business Assistance of New Jersey. She is or has been the chair of the board of the Elizabethtown Corp. and a director of Elizabethtown Water Co. and its E'Town Properties Inc., a New York Stock Exchange company.