News Digest
Highlights from ILR
Professor Rebecca Givan explained on WHCU today how health care legislation could roll out during the next few weeks. The podcast can be heard online (mp3).
The nation's largest intercollegiate forensics program is moving to ILR from the university's agriculture quad. Read more about the Cornell Forensics Society, a speech and debate organization.
New ILR faculty member M. Diane Burton is an associate professor of human resource studies. More information about Burton and her research is available online.
David Lipsky is a 2010 winner of the Labor and Employment Relations Association Fellows Award. He is being honored for lifetime contributions to research on the employment relationship. The Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution and director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution, Lipsky will accept the award Jan. 4 in Atlanta, Ga.
Esta Bigler '70, director of ILR's Labor and Employment Law Program, reflected on changes toward gender issues as part of a Cornell event commemorating four decades of women's studies at the university. Read about Bigler's experiences online.
Andrew Bridson '11 is scheduled to appear Nov. 12 as a contestant on the "Wheel of Fortune" television program's "College Week" show. "While I can't reveal many particulars about the program, I can say that I had a lot of fun, solved a puzzle and won a little bit of money," he said after the show was taped.
An Institute of Workplace Studies Colloquium Series event featuring Sir Denis Bryan, president of the International Criminal Tribunal, can be seen in video online. Bryan spoke on the "Role of the Courts in Protecting and Preserving Human Rights" at the New York City event, co-sponsored by the Cornell Law School.
Three ILR Ph.D. degree recipients have received dissertation awards from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Marco Hauptmeier Ph.D. '09 and Migwei Liu Ph.D. '08 shared the first prize. Ryan Lamare '04, '05, '08 received honorable mention. The annual competition is for post-doctoral students in industrial relations or related fields.
Stuart Basefsky and Art Wheaton will be speakers at a Eurofund international conference in Dublin, Ireland. "The Automotive Sector: How Can Social Dialogue Assist a Sector in Crisis (A Global Response?)" will be held Nov. 26-27. Wheaton is a speaker in a session called "Workplace Level Recessional Measures and Innovative Measures." Basefsky will speak in a session entitled "Addressing Impact of Crisis on Industrial Relations."