Cassandra (Cassie) Dembosky has been appointed to the position of university registrar. She had been serving as the interim university registrar for the past year and a half. (Oct. 8, 2010)
The Employee Assembly is partnering with the Cornell United Way Campaign to help generate campus enthusiasm about how the United Way directly helps individuals and families in the local area. (Oct. 8, 2010)
Professor Robert Morgan will join a group of esteemed writers including Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry and his late colleague A.R. Ammons in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame later this month. (Oct. 7, 2010)
Sessions to help eligible contract college employees apply for the New York state early retirement incentive will be held throughout Oct. Deadline: 30 days before retiring, or Nov. 30 at the latest.
The annual open enrollment period for endowed health, dental and select benefits plans will be Nov. 1-30. News from NYS on contract college employees plans are pending. Benefair will be Nov. 10. (Oct. 6, 2010)
Graduate student Jade Woods Moore, 24, was killed in a two-vehicle accident Oct. 5 on Route 13, north of Ithaca. Her husband, Bill Moore, was injured in the collision and died Oct. 6 at Robert Packer Hospital.
Donald Zilversmit, professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at Cornell and an expert on the relationship between diet and cardiovascular disease, died Sept. 16 at age 91. (Oct. 4, 2010)
The associate professor of biomedical engineering has been appointed vice president of the new International Society of Bionic Engineering. (Oct. 4, 2010)
