After leading a review of programming and budget for the Cornell Commitment programs, Provost Biddy Martin announced July 21 that changes will be made in the programs' management structure. "While Cornell's commitment to these programs remains unchanged, we cannot insulate them from the thoughtful review of administrative structure and support needs that is currently under way across campus," Martin wrote in a letter distributed to students and alumni of the programs. "In this difficult fiscal period, we are committed, not only to fiscal responsibility, but to the clarification of roles and responsibilities within our units and to the enhancement of coordination across units. . . . We have approached the task of review by trying to balance our commitment to the programs and students they have benefited with our responsibility to make necessary budget reductions." (July 22, 2003)
Barbara Viniar is the new executive director of the Institute for Community College Development (ICCD) at Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Extension Division, starting today (July 21). The institute was created in 2001 to help community colleges worldwide meet societal needs for training and education and provide valuable education and professional development for community college administrators and faculty members. Founded through an agreement between the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell, ICCD originally was housed in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Education. It moved to ILR's Extension Division, the outreach and public service arm of the school, in the summer of 2002. (July 21, 2003)
Gary M. Thompson has been appointed executive director of the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, effective July 1, 2003.
Does obesity play a role in employment disability? Can certain neighborhood designs influence residents' physical activity? Does level of education relate to whether people will start or quit smoking? Can daily telephone interviews capture how busy working parents cope with family meals?
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Twenty-four undergraduates from Cornell University are spending this summer interning with community-based organizations serving New York City's poorest children and families. And an additional nine Cornell graduate students are collaborating with agencies serving the city's poor. Members of the media are invited to attend a public forum at the Cornell Club in New York City on Wednesday, July 23, from 5 to 7 p.m., during which students participating in this year's Cornell Urban Scholars Program will discuss the results of their summer internship placements and collaborative research activities. The club is at 6 E. 44th St. (near Grand Central Station). (July 17, 2003)
In the fishbowl of life, when hordes of well-fed predators drive their prey to the brink of extinction, sometimes evolution takes the fast track to help the hunted survive — and then thrive to outnumber their predators.
Cornell University will host a symposium Sept. 8-9 focusing on land-grant university research and outreach to help communities prepare for natural and man-made biohazards. The symposium, "Role and Responsibilities of the Land Grant System in Building Community Strengths to Address Biohazards."
Cornell is putting more than 1,500 volumes -- more than 600,000 pages -- in an online archive documenting the history of home economics, thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Good deeds do get noticed. For exemplary enthusiasm in volunteering throughout the community, the staff of Cornell University's Organizational Development Services (ODS) will receive the 2003 Community Service Award from the Cornell Business and Technology Park. The ODS group will receive a plaque July 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Pond Pavilion on Thornwood Drive. In addition to the plaque, $1,000 each will be donated in the department's honor to the Community Dispute Resolution Center and to the Women's Opportunity Center. The ODS is part of Cornell's Office of Human Resources. (July 14, 2003)
How have U.S. immigration actions changed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks? What do the changes mean for Americans, and what should be done next? A report issued this summer by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has the answers, although a few of its recommendations may irk some on both sides of the political spectrum, says co-author Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell University Law School. (July 14, 2003)
Fifty years after Watson and Crick described the structure of double helix DNA, Cornell biophysicists are discovering the roles of DNA-binding proteins in much the same way an impatient person frees a stuck zipper.
Former Wall Street equities researcher Lakshmi R. Bhojraj has been appointed director of operations of the Parker Center for Investment Research at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
