"As a lobbyist, my job is advocacy. Like any advocate, if you have a good cause to promote, you are ahead of the game, and I have a great cause: strengthening and globalizing Cornell University," says Stephen Philip Johnson, assistant vice president for government relations at Cornell. Johnson has been advocating for Cornell to state or federal legislators since 1984. Now he is switching his base of operations to Washington, D.C.
Women have unique financial circumstances. They earn less, on average, than men. They may have employment gaps due to family caregiving, which can affect their future retirement benefits. They also live longer, on average, than men, so their money has to last longer. Of the elderly poor in the United States, more than 70 percent are women. Issues such as these, and strategies to empower and equip women to become more financially savvy, are the focus of the Cornell University conference "Money Talk: A Conference on Women's Financial Health and Well-Being" to be held at the Holiday Inn, Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, June 8.
DOHA, Qatar -- On May 4 Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) honored preceptors from the Hamad Medical Corp. (HMC) in recognition of their contributions to the clinical education of WCMC-Q's inaugural class of first-year medical students.
Cornell faculty members Linda Rayor and John Weiss have been named 2005 winners of the Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Service-Learning Award. The annual award, which comes with a $5,000 purse for each recipient, recognizes the winners' involvement with service-learning projects that actively involve Cornell students in research, teaching and outreach efforts addressing important community-identified policy issues. It is given by Cornell's Public Service Center.
NEW YORK -- Pouting models -- including a Cornell student -- and live music mixed it up at the W Hotel in Manhattan May 1 as Cornell Design League and Harvard's Veritas Records performed to raise money and awareness for thyroid cancer. The models were showing off original designs by 40 Cornell students before a packed house of 300.
"Things Fall Apart" is bringing people together. Nearly 5,000 students from 59 high schools in 17 New York counties and New York City will read Chinua Achebe's masterful novel "Things Fall Apart" as part of a statewide pilot program coordinated through Cornell Cooperative Extension and the 2005 New Student Reading Project at Cornell. In addition, 24,000 Cornell alumni from 31 class years also will join what has become an annual rite of passage for incoming freshman and transfer students at Cornell.
'Fighting terrorism is a legitimate fight, but it has to be done within the framework of human rights,' Shirin Ebadi told a packed house in Kennedy Hall's Call Auditorium May 4.
Curtis S. Ostrander is the new director of the Cornell University Police Department, Steve Golding, executive vice president for finance and administration, announced May 2, effective immediately. As director of Cornell Police, Ostrander will be responsible for leading the university's broad-based campus law enforcement agency.
NEW YORK -- The man who founded the popular travel Web site Priceline.com, Jay S. Walker, ILR '77, told a standing-room-only New York City audience on April 27 that the "age of the muscle is ending" and is "being replaced by the age of the mind." Walker was addressing more than 225 Cornell alumni and guests at Cornell Theory Center's (CTC) Manhattan offices.
President George Bush wasn't bugged by having a slime-mold beetle named for him. In fact, he was so pleased that he telephoned former Cornell Professor Quentin Wheeler in London on April 29 to thank him.
Fred Rhoades has been driving buses – all kinds of buses, from school and senior citizens' buses to charter coaches – for more than 35 years. But according to Rhoades, the Prevost motor coaches that run eight times a week on Cornell's Campus-to-Campus express charter service beat them all – at least, based on comfort and passenger response from students, faculty, staff and alumni.
