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Cornell Career Services' Devlin receives Kauffman Award

Thomas C. Devlin, the executive director of career services at Cornell since 1978, has received the 1995 Warren E. Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

In the face of population growth, environmental degradation

Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and social achievements, the Green Revolution saved millions from starvation in the 1960s and 70s. Now, faced with increasing population growth, environmental degradation and problems of hunger, Cornell University scientists believe the future is bleak.

Cornell Career Services' Devlin receives Kauffman Award

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Thomas C. Devlin, the executive director of career services at Cornell University since 1978, has received the 1995 Warren E. Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The Bethlehem, Pa.-based membership organization (formerly known as the College Placement Council) represents professionals involved in the career planning and employment of college students and graduates.

Presenting the past is theme of upcoming Cornell conference

ITHACA, N.Y. -- How should pivotal historical events be recorded? Depicted? Commemorated? "Recent controversies in public history, from the 'Disney's America' theme park to the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay exhibit, have highlighted the contested nature of collective memory," says Cornell University graduate student Jeffrey Hyson. Such debates are themselves powerful reminders of the uneasy alliance of history and memory, he said. That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held on the Cornell campus April 11 through 13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus. The conference is being sponsored by the Department of History, Society for the Humanities, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and Graduate History Association.

Douglas Wilder, former Virginia governor, will give lecture April 2

Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public.

Nobel chemist to discuss atmospheric ozone at Cornell on April 4

Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab.

Cornell's Kalos describes benefits of high-performance computing to a congressional panel

Many of the large problems that confront society are multidisciplinary and high-performance computating can contribute in essential ways to their solution, Malvin H. Kalos, director of the Cornell Theory Center, told a congressional panel last week.

Nobel chemist to discuss atmospheric ozone at Cornell on April 4

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell University on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab. His lecture, "The Chemistry of Polar Ozone Depletion," is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Cornell Chemistry Department.

Douglas Wilder, former Virginia governor, will give open lecture at Cornell on April 2

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell University at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public. On Jan. 13, 1990, Wilder achieved a milestone when he was sworn in as the first elected African-American governor in U.S. history. Notably, his election occurred in a state that was once a cornerstone of the Confederacy and that had once denied Wilder admission to its law schools.

Cornell University Press publishes chronicle of plant shutdown

Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.

'Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing' offers tips for both employees and corporations on how to put best face on downsizing and plant closures

Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, Illes (pronounced ILL-liss), a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.

Ambassador Sol Linowitz remembers friend and former Cornell classmate Edmund S. Muskie

Former U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), a 1939 Cornell Law School alumnus who went on to serve as a secretary of state and to run for president, died on Monday, March 25, at Georgetown University Medical Center after suffering a heart attack following surgery to open a blocked artery in his leg. He was 81.