Cornell's educational programs and support for all employees, as well as number of women in executive positions, have earned it a place as one of the nation's top nonprofit employers for executive women.
Cornell ranks No. 4 in producing Peace Corps volunteers among medium-sized colleges and universities nationwide, according to the 2013 Peace Corps' annual ranking.
Nominations are being accepted through Feb. 28 for two new employee awards - an individual excellence award and a management award - created in response to feedback from last year's Employee Survey.
Cornell University Library's copy of the Emancipation Proclamation will be displayed Feb. 11-18 in Kroch Library as part of the exhibition 'Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation at 150.'
Africana professor Riche Richardson will travel to Montgomery, Ala., to speak at the 100th birthday celebration of the late civil rights icon Rosa Parks Feb. 4.
Eight undergraduates each earned $5,000 awards for their distinguished work in fashion design and business in the national YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund competition.
Things to Do the week of Feb. 1-8 include a conference on memory, a classical piano trio, a blood drive and a roundtable on the needs of the very old and very young.
