Karin Ash is the new director of the Career Management Center at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. "Karin will be taking over the career services activities at the Johnson School.
Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee has issued a document outlining the challenges and opportunities for its next president, as well as qualifications the ideal candidate should demonstrate. The eight-page document, "The Cornell Opportunity," was developed based on input from Cornell faculty, students, staff and alumni over the past several months, as well as input from other friends of the university and community leaders in Ithaca and beyond, according to Edwin H. Morgens, chair of the Presidential Search Committee. (August 21, 2002)
Cornell is a welcoming community with a place for everyone. That's the Orientation Week message to new arrivals and their families: some 3,046 freshmen, 283 transfer students and 2,240 new graduate and professional students who will arrive on campus starting this Friday, Aug. 23.
Ron Blackwell, director of corporate affairs at the AFL-CIO, is this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell University Thursday, Aug. 29. The labor leader is also a former economist and academic dean at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Blackwell's public lecture is titled "No More Business as Usual: A Union Perspective on Corporate Accountability." It will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in 105 Ives Hall on Cornell's campus. The talk, which is sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is free and open to the public. (August 20, 2002)
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $10 million to a four-institution consortium that includes Cornell University to build agricultural research and extension services in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to alleviate the nation's chronic hunger, poverty and disease. Over the next five years, the consortium plans to build institutional research and extension capacity in agriculture, natural-resource management, micro-finance and micro-enterprise development in the country's Amhara region. Officially, the program is called Assisting the Shift in Paradigms in Agricultural Research and Extension in Ethiopia (ASPIRE). (August 19, 2002)
TCAT riders who catch the popular No. 10 weekday shuttle between the Cornell University campus and downtown Ithaca now have a wider window for the trip. Service has been expanded by two hours a day, with the shuttle now running every 10 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The shuttle departs from Seneca Street at Tioga Street, making stops at Tioga and Buffalo streets and at Stewart Avenue and Williams Street before reaching Cornell's West Campus and Sage Hall. On the return trip downtown, there is a stop at College and Mitchell avenues. (August 19, 2002)
Jane Mt. Pleasant, Cornell University associate professor of crop and soil sciences, has been appointed director of the university's American Indian Program, which provides educational opportunities for Native American students and outreach activities. She previously directed the program from 1995 to 1999. Mt. Pleasant, who took over the position July 1, succeeds Daniel Usner, who has joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. (August 15, 2002)
A large-scale study has for the first time shown a clear link in North America between acid rain and widespread declines across the breeding range of a songbird, the wood thrush. Calcium depletion affecting the birds' food is a possible cause, Cornell ecologists say.
NEW YORK, NY (August 14, 2002)Researchers at Columbia University and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital suggest that a higher consumption of calories and fat may translate into an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) for some people.The results of their study, reported in the August issue of Archives of Neurology, suggest that this risk may arise in individuals who have a variant of apolipoprotein E, known as apo E4. Apolipoprotein E (apo E) is a cholesterol-processing protein responsible for transporting cholesterol in and out of cells. There are different variants of apo E, designated by numbers. People inherit one form of apo E from each parent. Studies have shown that those with one copy of the variant apo E4 are at greater risk of developing AD, while those who inherit 2 copies are at even greater risk.
Levels of a pivotal signal processor in the brain are reduced significantly in people with schizophrenia, a study by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University, and University of California at Irvine (UCI) has found.
Forget the flat-topped, rheumy-eyed giant with the zombie shuffle and the rigor-mortis grin. That's kid stuff. This is the real thing: Frankenstein, the book, written by an 18-year-old Englishwoman named Mary Shelley. And Cornell and the entire Ithaca community are in on it. More than 3,500 new students at Cornell, as well as many faculty, staff and continuing students.
Richard Burkhauser, Cornell University professor of policy analysis and management, has been invited to speak at President Bush's Economic Forum at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, next Tuesday, Aug. 13.
