Polish Studies at Cornell University

• The Institution
• Language Instruction
• Poland-Related Courses
• Faculty
• Poland-Related Resources
• Polish-born Nobel Laureate

• Polish 131 Beginning Polish @
• Polish 132 Continuing Polish @
• Polish 133 Continuing Polish @
• Polish 134 Intermediate Polish @
• Polish 300 Directed Studies @

• Undergraduate concentration in European Studies
• Russian and East European Studies Major
• Certificate in European Studies (CES)

Laquatra, Joseph, Jr. Associate Professor Human-Environment Relations and Housing and Design @

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984
Phone: (607) 255-2145 / Fax: (607) 255-0305 / E-Mail: jl27@cornell.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Housing; residential energy efficiency, indoor air quality, housing technology, and housing affordability.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: As a scholar in residence at the American Polish Home Builders Institute in Gdansk during his 1994 sabbatical, Dr. Laquatra travelled around Poland to teach a course on energy efficient construction. His report Toward a Strong Polish Housing Industry is available on the Internet.

Lazes, Peter Senior Extension Associate, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Director, Strategic Planning for Unions; Programs for Economic Transitions @ @

Phone: (212) 340-2811 / Fax: .... / Email: pml5@cornell.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Worker Participation, Industrial Democracy, Job and Organizational Restructuring, Strategies Planning for High Performance Work Systems, Strategic Planning for Unions, Participative Action Research, Methods to Develop Sustain Co-Learning, Health Care Reengineering, Economic Development Strategies, Large System Processes
POLAND-RELATED ACTIVITIES: Listed by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an expert on Poland in the area of International Studies. @

• The Lafayettee Collection The Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections preserves over 10,000 items concerning the life and career of marquis de Lafayette. The Lafayette Collection documents especially well Lafayette's role with regard to the Polish Revolution and the international support it generated. @ @

• Cornell University Library's Collection of Polish Underground Publications In 1995, Cornell University Library acquired a rare and invaluable collection of over 1200 Polish Underground publications from the Solidarity era. These items were written and printed during a time of martial law, when one could be imprisoned for even being associated with such activities. @

Hoffmann, Roald, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Chemistry. @

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1962.
Phone: 607-255-3419 / Fax: 607-255-5707 / E-mail: rh34@postoffice4.mail.cornell.edu; Roaldhoff@aol.com
NOBEL PRIZE: Shared with Kenichi Fukui the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the theoretical interpretation of chemical reactions using rules of orbital symmetry.
MAJOR INTERESTS: Applied theoretical chemistry: the geometry and reactivity of molecules, from organic through inorganic to infinitely extended structures. Chemical Education. Poetry: his poems evoke the magic of molecular science, its historical roots, the richness of modern chemical activities, and the mysterious confluences of science and art. In 1997 he published with Shira Leibowitz Schmidt Old Wine, New Flasks; Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition
POLISH LINKS: Born in Zloczow, Poland, in 1937, survived the Nazi occupation, arriving n the U.S. in 1949, after several years of post-war wandering in Europe.