Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
A panel of experts in geology, energy, groundwater and public policy educated the Cornell community about the broad range of competing energy and environmental issues surrounding the drilling controversy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Three local nonprofit organizations will receive a total of $10,000 in grants from a class in the College of Human Ecology designed to teach students about philanthropy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Social science departments are too diffuse for the university to excel in the discipline and should strategically merges some units, according to task force findings discussed Dec. 1.
The Benefits Option Transfer Period will run until Dec. 31 for contract college employees to change health plans and enroll in Select Benefits for 2010. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Consumer Credit Counseling Services offers free financial counseling by phone, in person at their offices, or in on-campus meetings and debt and bankruptcy help for a modest, sliding scale fee. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Events this week include original dance at the Schwartz Center and student films at Cornell Cinema, a holiday party at the Johnson Museum, and the 2009 Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Dorian Bandy '10 has won a 2010 Marshall Scholarship and will study Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The scholarship supports two years of study at a British university. (Dec. 2, 2009)
Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk. (Dec. 2, 2009)
Researchers at Cornell's Survey Research Institute, along with Princeton and the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, are conducting a survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey. (Dec. 2, 2009)
The rally, organized by Kyoto Now!, sought to raise awareness about water contamination from hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from the earth. (Dec. 2, 2009)
ILR School professor John H. Bishop's proposal to create a temporary job creation tax credit will likely be discussed at President Obama's Dec. 3 jobs summit. (Dec. 1, 2009)
