Notables

Jan Katz, the Suter-Staley Director of Global Business Education at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, is the recipient of a U.S. Department of Education grant to develop international teaching materials that address areas of overlap between business, government, public interest groups, nonprofits and other agencies that serve civil society. Awarded by the federal department's Title VI International Research and Studies Program, the grant is for three years, pending yearly renewal. Katz, who also is a senior lecturer in international business and marketing at the Johnson School, is working on the project with Sarosh Kuruvilla, a professor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Elena Iankova, a visiting lecturer at the Johnson School. Most of the materials they develop will focus on Colombia, Bulgaria and India and will be used in a range of courses in area studies, business, political science and other subjects. The team also will include graduate student research assistants and other members of the Cornell community interested in working on the project. For information, contact Katz at 255-7395 or jhk14@cornell.edu.

Karim-Aly Kassan and Angela Carter are two Canadians who have been awarded Canada-U.S. Fulbright grants to do graduate studies at Cornell. Kassan won a Fulbright-OAS Ecology Initiative grant to pursue doctoral studies in natural resources policy and management at Cornell starting this semester. Specifically he will explore sustainable development and the use of natural resources by Arctic and sub-Artic indigenous people and the relationship between ecological and cultural diversity. He is the first Canadian to receive the grant, which is jointly administered by the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program and LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas. Prior to coming to Cornell, he was director of the University of Calgary's Theme School in Northern Planning and Development Studies. Carter recently completed an M.A. in political economy from Carleton University in Ottawa and will study political science in Cornell's government department. She is interested in bringing together the disciplines of environmental ethics and political economy and in applying this analysis to a study of resource development along North America's East Coast. Kassan and Carter were among the 55 Canadian and American scholars who received Canada-U.S. Fulbrights this year.

The Episcopal Church at Cornell has announced the appointment of the Rev. Suzanne Guthrie as Episcopal chaplain at Cornell. She has served most recently as the adviser to the Episcopal Church at Vassar College and has traveled widely as a Christian formation consultant, retreat leader and program facilitator. Guthrie is the author of two books, Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer and Praying the Hours and is working on a book of hours for children and beginners. She contributes regularly to The Christian Century, Episcopal Life, and The Living Pulpit. Guthrie becomes the fourth permanent chaplain in the 55-year history of the Episcopal Church at Cornell.

John Boudreau, professor of human resource studies in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has stepped down from the directorship of the ILR School's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS). The center is a partnership in global human resource management between industry and academia. Boudreau, who has headed CAHRS since 1995, is a visiting professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business as well as visiting research director of the Center for Effective Organizations at Marshall while on leave from the ILR School during the 2003-04 academic year. Patrick Wright, also a professor of human resource studies at the ILR School, is the new director of CAHRS.