The Employee Assistance Program will be accepting applications to the Hardship Fund April 13-May 29. The fund is one of a number of programs designed to help employees in the current economic downturn. (April 3, 2009)
Applications for the SRI program are being reviewed. Letters will be sent to all applicants no later than April 10 informing them of the status of their application. (April 3, 2009)
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)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Teaching Winery opened April 1. The winery, attached to the Cornell Orchards store, will act as the Ithaca hub for CALS' new viticulture and enology undergraduate major. (April 2, 2009)
The Physical Sciences Library in Clark Hall will close at the end of 2009, but the library's presence will continue to be a portal for scholarly resources and services.
Cornell and extension are helping upstate municipalities engage in a dialogue about merging or sharing services to be more sustainable. (April 2, 2009)
A 4-H group in Ontario County is helping local firefighters and other emergency responders by mapping hydrants and other vital information. (April 2, 2009)
More than 100 Cornell students spent their spring break tackling such issues as urban poverty and hunger on service-learning trips in a number of different places on the East Coast. (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)
