An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Calling the work-life balance one of its core values, the law firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLP recognized Cornell with its Excellence in Work-Life Balance Award, Jan. 28.
About 2,400 staff, faculty, retirees and their families attended the 2014 winter Employee Celebration, Jan. 25, which included dinner and athletic events.
An Inclusive Excellence Academy workshop for all employees Jan. 15, in support of the Toward New Destinations initiative, discusses subtle ways in which people are made to feel ignored, devalued and excluded.
Alexis Santí opened the first of six Soup and Hope talks Jan. 16, reflecting on growing up as an Ithacan and traveling the world before assuming his current position at Cornell.
KyuJung Whang, Cornell vice president for facilities, has been named to the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
The seventh annual Bartels Awards for Custodial Service Excellence, held Dec. 16 in Bartels Hall, recognized this year’s recipients of the Bartels scholarships and gave six housekeeping and custodial staff members Bartels Awards.
