Cornell University has adopted new, universitywide procedures for responding to complaints of sexual harassment, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (July 10).
Nine land-grant university libraries -- the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University among them -- have received a two-year, $850,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and protect brittle agricultural volumes.
Thomas C. Keane, acting director of financial aid and student employment at Cornell University, has been named director effective July 1, announced Donald A. Saleh, dean of admissions and financial aid. Keane, who joined Cornell in 1983, has been acting director since July 1994, succeeding Saleh in that position. Keane.
Laurie A. Robinson, acting director of development at Cornell University, has been appointed director, announced Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Robinson is a 1977 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
A former bus driver who rose through the ranks of several mass-transit agencies has been named the first general manager of TCAT, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit system. The appointment of Rodney Ghearing is effective today (July 8).
Dr. Carl Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, has returned for diagnosis and treatment to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. During careful post-treatment monitoring, the earliest signs of a potential relapse of myelodysplasia were detected. It is being vigorously treated with the objective of a complete cure. Dr. Sagan is continuing his research and writing schedule and expects to be back at Cornell University in the fall. Sagan.lb.html (The above is the complete story.)
Kenneth C. Hover, Cornell professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named associate dean for undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering, Dean John Hopcroft has announced.
The Cornell University Home Study Program is changing its name to the Cornell University Food Industry Management Distance Education Program, said George S. Hayward, director of the program.
Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program has announced a new computer-based training program for retail food store managers and associates. The CD-ROM program, which explores the topic "Personal Hygiene," is the first of four programs planned on fundamental topics in food safety and sanitation.
