Managers whose words match their deeds have a positive effect not only on morale but on their company's bottom line, according to a study by a Cornell University researcher and his colleague.
Beginning Sept. 15 Cornell University will bar all pets from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' research farmland in Varna to reduce damage to crops and to improve health and safety for workers at the farm, pet owners and pets themselves. The farmland, which extends from Route 366 to the south side of Fall Creek, is accessed by an unpaved road about halfway between the Freese Road intersection of Route 366 and the railroad bridge over that highway. Local police will increase patrols in the area and, at first, will issue warnings and then tickets to repeat offenders when the pet ban takes effect Sept. 15. (August 28, 2002)
Cornell University's Department of Food Science has announced that Crowley Foods, Albany, and Upstate Farms Cooperative, Rochester, have tied as the producers of the highest quality milk in New York state for 2002. The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program and is sponsored by the New York Milk Promotion Order. The analytical tests are run at Cornell. (August 26, 2002)
After deliberating for only 40 minutes, a jury unanimously exonerated Cornell University today (Aug. 23) of all charges in a discrimination suit heard in federal district court in Syracuse. The case, Patricia O'Neill vs. Cornell University, was heard before the Hon. Neal McCurn, senior U.S. District Court judge. (August 23, 2002)
To help midcareer faculty in Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who want to change their research direction, the family of the late Howard N. McManus Jr. has established an endowed faculty research award and graduate fellowship fund. The fund honors McManus (1921-1974), who was a Sibley School professor from 1957 until his death. (August 23, 2002)
Karin Ash is the new director of the Career Management Center at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. "Karin will be taking over the career services activities at the Johnson School.
Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee has issued a document outlining the challenges and opportunities for its next president, as well as qualifications the ideal candidate should demonstrate. The eight-page document, "The Cornell Opportunity," was developed based on input from Cornell faculty, students, staff and alumni over the past several months, as well as input from other friends of the university and community leaders in Ithaca and beyond, according to Edwin H. Morgens, chair of the Presidential Search Committee. (August 21, 2002)
Cornell is a welcoming community with a place for everyone. That's the Orientation Week message to new arrivals and their families: some 3,046 freshmen, 283 transfer students and 2,240 new graduate and professional students who will arrive on campus starting this Friday, Aug. 23.
Ron Blackwell, director of corporate affairs at the AFL-CIO, is this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell University Thursday, Aug. 29. The labor leader is also a former economist and academic dean at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Blackwell's public lecture is titled "No More Business as Usual: A Union Perspective on Corporate Accountability." It will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in 105 Ives Hall on Cornell's campus. The talk, which is sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is free and open to the public. (August 20, 2002)
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $10 million to a four-institution consortium that includes Cornell University to build agricultural research and extension services in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to alleviate the nation's chronic hunger, poverty and disease. Over the next five years, the consortium plans to build institutional research and extension capacity in agriculture, natural-resource management, micro-finance and micro-enterprise development in the country's Amhara region. Officially, the program is called Assisting the Shift in Paradigms in Agricultural Research and Extension in Ethiopia (ASPIRE). (August 19, 2002)
TCAT riders who catch the popular No. 10 weekday shuttle between the Cornell University campus and downtown Ithaca now have a wider window for the trip. Service has been expanded by two hours a day, with the shuttle now running every 10 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The shuttle departs from Seneca Street at Tioga Street, making stops at Tioga and Buffalo streets and at Stewart Avenue and Williams Street before reaching Cornell's West Campus and Sage Hall. On the return trip downtown, there is a stop at College and Mitchell avenues. (August 19, 2002)
Jane Mt. Pleasant, Cornell University associate professor of crop and soil sciences, has been appointed director of the university's American Indian Program, which provides educational opportunities for Native American students and outreach activities. She previously directed the program from 1995 to 1999. Mt. Pleasant, who took over the position July 1, succeeds Daniel Usner, who has joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. (August 15, 2002)
