Assistance program for faculty and staff moves

The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP, formerly the Employee Assistance Program, or EAP) is moving to Collegetown, at 409 College Ave., Suite 201, beginning July 1. (June 22, 2011)

State's first hops specialist on tap to promote New York beer production

Cornell Cooperative Extension has hired a hops specialist to promote New York beer production while using local sources, reducing their carbon footprint and keeping jobs in the state. (June 21, 2011)

Cornell websites, alumni relations garner CASE awards

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education annual Circle of Excellence Awards has given bronze medals to two Cornell websites and a silver medal for alumni relations programs. (June 21, 2011)

Cornell celebrates dance and the arts at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

President David Skorton explored themes of dance and celebrated artistic director Judith Jamison's career at the Joan Weill Center for Dance and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Manhattan June 8. (June 20, 2011)

Cornell proposes 'transformative' NYC campus

Cornell's New York City footprint may soon grow larger with the addition of a new applied sciences research center and campus. The university plans to respond to a Request for Proposals for the project this summer.

Work cultures need to change, say conference speakers

More than 200 people from area colleges, organizations and government services attended the Diversity Community Roundtable at Ithaca College, discussing ways to create inclusive workplace cultures. (June 17, 2011)

Kotlikoff reappointed Vet College dean for five-year term

Kotlikoff will begin his second five-year term July 1, 2012. Among his priorities will be the college's capital plan, renewing the faculty and expanding groundbreaking translational programs.

Architect Edgar Tafel's $3.8M gift will endow architecture professorship and lecture series

A gift from the estate of architect Edgar Tafel, a member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, will establish an endowed professorship in architecture and a lecture series in his name. (June 16, 2011)

Doug Antczak '69 entertains alumni with (some true!) tales of hybrids and chimeras

Cornell Professor Doug Antczak '69 discussed hybrids and chimeras, real and imagined, and how some myths are coming closer to reality with the help of modern science, June 9 during Reunion.