Twenty new faculty members have joined the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Nine of the new faculty members are women.
Dr. Hammer taught organizational behavior in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) for nearly five decades. She was the first woman to serve as senior editor of the ILR Review.
Dr. Carson is known for her work in poetry, fiction, and translation. She has taught at several educational institutions throughout Canada and the United States.
Gabriella Carini is director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Kira Reed is taking on a special assignment in community impact assessment at Syracuse University. Angel Jones and Alicia B. Batson have joined the faculties of the University of Washington Tacoma and Meharry Medical College, respectively.
Dr. Hayes was a member of the nursing faculty at the University of Delaware for more than three decades. In retirement, she founded and sponsored the university's annual Evelyn Hayes Innovations in Healthcare Symposium.
Dr. Guerinot, an endowed professor at Dartmouth College, was recently recognized for advancing research on Arabidopsis thaliana, a small weed that has become the standard model for plant biology.
Dr. Sandwell is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her award-winning book, National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle Against Apartheid examines the role of women in South Africa's liberation movements, particularly within the African National Congress during its years in exile.
Over the past 15 years, the share of young women identifying as something other than exclusively straight increased from 22 percent to 50 percent, according to a new study from Binghamton University. Notably, the research did not find a similar trend among young men, who are more likely to say they are either exclusively straight or exclusively gay.
Most recently, Dr. Sanders served as vice president of experiential product management and interim vice president of product and technology at Western Governors University.
Dr. Newkirk was the first faculty member of color in the College of Home Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where served as chair of the department of home economics education for 20 years. Dr. Newkirk was also the first African American elected president of the American Home Economics Association.
Across a series of five experiments, scholars at Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley found that women are consistently perceived as more trustworthy negotiators. Furthermore, this focus on relationship-building in negotiations did not lead to worse economics outcomes for women negotiators compared to their male counterparts.
