Because contract college health plan changes need to be made using a paper form, employees only have until Dec. 24 to hand-deliver the form to Benefit Services or until Dec. 31 to postmark them. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Tickets are available for the Light in Winter Festival, Furthur at Barton Hall on Valentine's Day, and a Winter Employee Celebration Jan. 16. Also: Holiday hours and exhibitions at the Johnson Museum. (Dec. 17, 2009)
The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell has issued probabilities for various cities in the Northeast having a white Christmas. The snowiest hot spot is Pinkham Notch, N.H. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Clint Sidle is director of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at the Johnson School, discusses how the program trains business leaders to avoid the excesses of Wall Street greed. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Cornell chemist Paul Chirik and colleagues have devised a new way to break the tough nitrogen-nitrogen bond in the lab and simultaneously create carbon-nitrogen bonds. (Dec. 16, 2009)
Four grants awarded from the Summer 2009 Seed Grant Competition are intended to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general. (Dec. 16, 2009)
A Cornell researcher has developed simulation models to predict the economic implications of selling wine in New York grocery stores. With a new law, the state could reap about $22 million a year. (Dec. 16, 2009)
Morgan Fleischman of the School of Hotel Administration, Darius Niknamfard of the ILR School and Steven Shterenberg of the College of Arts and Sciences have won Gilman Scholarships to study abroad. (Dec. 16, 2009)
Financial planner and Cornell lecturer Paul Strebel explains why he remains cautious about reinvesting in the stock market because the economy still has a long way to go to full recovery. (Dec. 16, 2009)
Provost Kent Fuchs issued a statement Dec. 16 announcing the formation of the Program Management Office to coordinate, track and monitor the implementation of at least $90 million in administrative cost savings.
About 100 humans and their dogs, cats, birds and even pet camel are part of Cornell Companions, a pet visitation group that visits schools, nursing homes and other institutions.
