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Cornell officials and architect end design relationship

Cornell and Steven Holl Architects announced today (July 11) that they had mutually agreed to dissolve their relationship for the design of the proposed new home for the university's Department of Architecture. Steven Holl Architects was the winner of an invited architecture design competition sponsored by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

Cornell receives $1.9 million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enhance undergraduate and K-12 biology education

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $1.9 million over four years to Cornell University, continuing its support of programs in undergraduate biology education and K-12 outreach.

Trust is more critical than service, price or brand in a food-service purchaser-supplier partnership, new study at Cornell finds

Trust and effective communication are more important to food-service purchasing agents than good service, price or brand, according to a new study from the Center for Hospitality Research at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. "Strong partnerships between purchasers and suppliers have come to be viewed as a competitive advantage for food and beverage purchasers who are looking for long-term economic success," says Judi Brownell, professor of organizational communication at Cornell. "This partnership is cemented by trust, communication and personal connections. Turnover in supplier representatives, therefore, is emerging as one of the most troublesome challenges facing purchasers today." (July 9, 2002)

Gene discovery in petunias could boost yield of hybrid food crops, Cornell plant scientists predict

Working with a decorative plant, the petunia, scientists at Cornell have identified a gene that restores pollen production to sterile plants.

Indoor air pollutants in low-income housing and in many child-care centers may put children at health risk

In areas prone to high radon levels, homes occupied by limited-resource households have significantly higher levels of radon than those occupied by higher income households, and some child-care centers have unsafe levels of radon, lead and mold, according to a new study at Cornell University.

Cornell-led CONTOUR mission launch postponed until July 3

The launch of NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour, CONTOUR, has been delayed until 2:47 a.m. EDT July 3, Cornell University space scientists said today. The launch had been scheduled for the morning of July 1.

Companion Animal Tumor Registry will track pets' cancers, help determine risk of human exposure to environmental carcinogens

A newly established Companion Animal Tumor Registry in two areas of New York state will test a question that has intrigued cancer researchers.

Cornell's Big Red scores robot soccer victory over Germany in Japan by stopping Berlin university team, 7-3, in world finals

If you are still sore about last week's United States quarterfinal loss to Germany in World Cup soccer in South Korea, don't be. On June 23 on behalf of Americans everywhere, Cornell students got revenge, beating the Freie Universität (FU) Fighters of Berlin, 7-3.

Structure of key protein that enables quorum-sensing bacteria to communicate and spread infection is solved by research team

A decade after microbiologists began to suspect that many groups of bacteria can communicate -- by releasing and detecting chemical pheromones to gauge their population density -- the molecular structure of a key protein in this interbacterial communication has been solved.

Jennie Farley, champion of women's rights, dies at age 69

Jennie Tiffany Towle Farley, a champion of women's rights and Cornell University professor of industrial and labor relations, co-founder of Cornell's Women's Studies Program and a former member of the university's Board of Trustees, died June 19 in Hudson, N.Y., after a long illness. She was 69.

Cornell officials respond to union request for materials

Cornell University officials announced today (June 20) that on June 14, Vice President for Human Resources Mary George Opperman received a subpoena duces tecum from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), issued at the request of the associate general counsel of the United Auto Workers in Detroit, demanding that the university produce by July 9 an enormous array of materials dealing not only with graduate and undergraduate students serving in teaching assistant, research assistant and related titles, but also dealing with all faculty of the university and all employees of the university "exclusive of TAs [teaching assistants], supervisors, managers and guards." Opperman observed that, since the initial hearing before a regional hearing examiner of the NLRB held in Ithaca on May 29, the university has been actively engaged in attempting to determine which individuals have been included in the proposed bargaining unit in the petition filed May 13 by the Cornell Association of Student Employees CASE/UAW. The inclusion of undergraduate students in the proposed unit has substantially complicated the data-gathering activity, since the university has no centralized record-keeping of undergraduates serving in the job titles identified by the union: teaching assistant, research assistant, tutors, graders, readers and consultants. (June 20, 2002)

N.Y. State Regents standards inadvertently producing more dropouts, say school system administrators in Cornell survey

Two years after the New York State Board of Regents removed the option of a local diploma in favor of more-demanding Regents diplomas for all students, 28 percent of the state's school superintendents, not including New York City, are reporting an increase in dropouts, according to a Cornell University survey. The findings were presented as a preliminary draft to the state's education leaders in May, and its final version is being released today (June 19, 2002). Among low-performing school districts, about 45 percent of the superintendents reported an increase in dropouts. Most average- and high-performing school districts reported no change in the dropout rate, according to the survey of superintendents and principals throughout New York state, conducted by John W. Sipple, Cornell assistant professor of education, and Kieran Killeen, an assistant professor at the University of Vermont. The survey included administrators from across upstate New York state. (June 19, 2002)