Bonnie Siber Weinstock '75 will receive the ILR School's Groat Award, and Douglas Braunstein '83 will receive the school's Jerome Alpern Award March 26 in New York City.

Weinstock, an employment arbitrator and mediator for industries including airlines, hotels, health care, education, publishing and government, regularly invites ILR School students to attend arbitration hearings and has mentored students who have become arbitrators. She served as the ILR School's Jean McKelvey Neutral-in-Residence during the 2005-06 academic year and is a founding advisory board member of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

"I decided that arbitration would be my career goal when I came to the realization that I was much more interested in seeing disputes resolved fairly than I was in advocating the merits of one side," said Weinstock. "I've been taken into the wheel wells of airplanes, I've been on tours of sterile environments where pharmaceuticals are manufactured. I've stood on street corners while accidents were re-enacted. This is the variety that keeps my job fascinating."

As head of J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking business, Braunstein oversees the work of thousands of employees and has worked on transactions totaling more than $850 billion. He has been a member of the ILR Dean's Advisory Council since 2003.

"I learned how to approach and work through and solve a problem in a focused and disciplined way," Braunstein said of his ILR School experience. "I have used those skills throughout my professional career. The school helped me become successful, and I think it's a responsibility to give back to those organizations that have been instrumental in your life."

The Groat Award, established in 1971, is named for Judge William B. Groat, who played a leading role in the founding of the ILR School. The Alpern Award was established in 1997 in honor of Jerome Alpern '49 to recognize service and support of the ILR School.