Notables

Former AT&T executive vice president Harold (Hal) W. Burlingame has been named to the board of directors of eCornell, the distance learning subsidiary launched by Cornell in 2001 that offers professional certificate and continuing education courses from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, School of Hotel Administration and Hospital for Special Surgery. Courses are planned using faculty and curricula from several other Cornell colleges. Burlingame is a senior executive advisor to AT&T Wireless, a fully independent company that spun off from AT&T in 2001. He is past chairman of the National Academy of Human Resources and is a member of the boards of UniSource Energy and Workwell Inc. He also chairs the executive committee of Organization Resources Counselors Inc.

Ronald Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, has been appointed chair of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession for the 2002-03 academic year. As part of his responsibilities, he will author the AAUP's annual report on faculty salaries.

Steven D. Smith, a doctoral student in accounting in the Johnson Graduate School of Management, was one of 10 accounting doctoral students from across the United States to receive a fellowship grant from the Deloitte Foundation. He will receive $5,000 during his final year of course work and $20,000 during the subsequent year, while he completes his dissertation. He was nominated for the fellowship by accounting faculty at the Johnson School and chosen by a selection committee of accounting educators.