A rise in threats to close plants and move capital investments elsewhere is effectively keeping U.S. workers from organizing and from making real economic gains in a booming economy, a study by Cornell labor experts shows.
Frank DiSalvo has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, one of 29 such national centers supported by the National Science Foundation.
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell University assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers. The fellowship will support research in Coates' laboratory directed toward the discovery of catalysts for the synthesis of biodegradable polymers from bio-renewable resources, such as carbon dioxide.
Cesar Munera, 18, a Cornell University freshman, of Stamford, Conn., is in Cayuga Medical Center in critical condition following a fall from the window of his campus room in Mary Donlon Hall, Friday, Oct. 6. Cornell Police is investigating the incident.
Psychotherapist Alyce Faye Cleese will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Family Life Development Center at Cornell on Oct. 13, noon-1 p.m. at the Faculty Commons, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Actor-comedian-writer John Cleese will make his second appearance at Cornell University in his role as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large and will present a screening of Monty Python's "Life of Brian" followed by a public lecture Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
Cornell University appointed the principal officers for eCornell, the university's new distance learning subsidiary, according to an announcement by Peter C. Meinig, chairman of the board of directors of eCornell.
On Oct 6, following a month-long investigation into an alleged assault in the parking lot of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at 109 McGraw Place, Cornell Police arrested a Cornell student on a charge of second-degree assault, a class D felony.
New York's northern tier and the northern parts of New England could see snow on Saturday and Sunday. But the wet white stuff may not accumulate enough to qualify as the earliest snow in the region, according to climatologists at Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center.
A celebration is in order: Thirty years ago, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University opened its doors, ushering in a new era in higher education for black students and scholars. The center's creation remains one of the remarkable, lasting accomplishments of the Black Power struggle of the 1960s and 1970s.