Cornell University's FMS summer fellows build 'tram lines across the globe' following a two-week seminar, "Feminist Identities, Global Struggles," and four symposia focused on diversity of gender, income, ethnicity and disability, July 25-Aug. 5. (Aug. 11, 2005)
Cornell researchers will formally present new audio evidence of ivory-billed woodpeckers Aug. 24 at the 123rd American Ornithologists Union meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif.
A moderate drought has been declared for the area from the Finger Lakes region to Buffalo, N.Y., down to north-central Pennsylvania, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Three graduate students are among 16 students at U.S. universities to receive grants as Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research. They are Katherine Mills, Dora Sugar and Elena Bondareva.
Before leaving for their internships, students in the Engineering Co-op program at Cornell attended a banquet where they listened to Robert Shutt of RASolutions give business dining etiquette advice.
The Tolani Shipping Co. has established the Tolani Senior Professorship in International Trade Policy at Cornell. The professorship honors alumnus Nandlal P. Tolani.
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has retired after more than five years as vice provost for land grant affairs and special assistant to the president, as of June 30, 2005. Francille Firebaugh retires as vice provost for land grant affairs
Twenty-six undergraduate and 10 graduate Cornell Urban Scholars Program students took part in an eight-week paid internship this summer at 32 organizations, among them some of the city's most innovative nonprofits.
The national executive search firm of Korn/Ferry International has been chosen to assist in the process of identifying and recruiting the strongest possible candidates for the next president of Cornell University, Diana Daniels, chair of the university's Presidential Search Committee, announced Aug. 5.
Disease management programs pay off for congestive heart failure and multiple diseases but not necessarily for asthma, diabetes and depression, says Ron Goetzel of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies.
Ronald Seeber, Cornell professor and associate dean in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and co-director of the ILR School's Institute on Conflict Resolution, has been named to the position of Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs.
