Cornell Employee Celebration is Feb. 14

Tickets are on sale through Feb. 6 for the annual winter event, which features Cornell athletic events and a community dinner in Barton Hall among other events. (Jan. 16, 2009)

Family and Medical Leave Act provisions take effect Jan. 16

Two FMLA entitlements related to the military are new for Cornell employees: a qualifying military exigency leave and a military caregiver leave. The provisions take effect Jan. 16. (Jan. 15, 2009)

Longtime employees Osika and McDaniel retire

The Cornell community celebrated the dedicated service of Dennis Osika '64, director of the Grounds Department, and of Richard McDaniel, M.P.A. '74, M.B.A. '78, vice president for risk management and public safety. (Jan. 15, 2009)

Memorial

A vigil for Nicholas Kau, a student who died Jan. 10 in New York City, will be held Jan. 16 in Manhattan, and funeral services will be Jan. 17. A campus memorial service is being planned for next week. (Jan. 15, 2009)

Andrew Clark named the first Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences

The professor of population genetics has been named the first Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. The award supports 'outstanding, innovative faculty life sciences research at Cornell.'

New Cornell Police officers commissioned

In a Jan. 14 commissioning ceremony, Christopher Cady, Kyle Hollenbeck, Blair MacDonald and Eric Stickel were sworn in, and officers Anthony Tostanoski and Scott Salino were promoted to sergeant. (Jan. 15, 2009)

Obama nominates William J. Lynn III, J.D. '80, for deputy defense secretary

William J. Lynn III, J.D. '80, has been nominated by President-elect Barack Obama for deputy defense secretary, the No. 2 position at the Pentagon. (Jan. 14, 2009)

Kauffman Foundation announces 2009 Entrepreneurship Dissertation Fellowships

Shon R. Hiatt, a Ph.D. student in organizational behavior and strategy in Cornell's ILR School, has received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship. (Jan. 14, 2009)

Ticket to history: ILR freshman gets close-up view of inauguration

ILR freshman Alyssa O'Connor has a ticket for the presidential inauguration and for a ball as a student in a five-day program sponsored by the University Presidential Inaugural Conference. (Jan. 13, 2009)