The Caring Community Web site offers links to resources and workshops, and provides avenues for employees to share personal cost-saving ideas. (April 3, 2009)
Juniors Eowyn Connolly-Brown, Michael Grundler, Stephen Linderman and Aman Prasad have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for 2009. They are among 278 scholars chosen from a field of 1,097 students nationwide. (April 2, 2009)
Cornell professor Laurent Dubreuil will investigate non-standard logic and the cognitive study of language with the help of a $274,000 Mellon New Directions Fellowship. (April 2, 2009)
Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. (April 2, 2009)
Cornell will sponsor the free and open workshop, Parents Apart: Parents Helping Children Cope with Separation and Divorce, April 2, noon-1 p.m., in 340 Duffield Hall. (April 1, 2009)
A team of Cornell students has designed a line of menswear clothing from fabric donated by Pendleton Woolen Mills. They are hoping Pendleton will integrate the 12 garment styles into its designs.
Anne-Lise Cossart '09 and Liz Bageant '10, with a grant from the Public Service Center, are collecting used bicycles to ship to Ghana. They hope to have 500 bikes by April 4, when the bikes leave Ithaca. (April 1, 2009)
Alan B. Krueger has been nominated as assistant secretary for economic policy in the U.S. Treasury Department, and Seth D. Harris has been nominated as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. (April 1, 2009)
