John M. Abowd, professor of labor economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER), was named the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations. Abowd is the first Cornell professor to hold the chair named for Day, who was the fifth president of the university, from 1937 to 1949, and who helped establish Cornell's ILR School and business school programs.