Yoke San Reynolds, who has served as vice president for financial affairs and university controller at Cornell for the past three years and who has brought substantial changes to the university's financial function, will leave Cornell in May to become the University of Virginia's vice president for finance.
Cornell will maintain its support for a program undertaken by member universities of the Fair Labor Association to involve locally-based organizations in monitoring working conditions in apparel factories in third-world countries. In making the announcement, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
Cornell officials, responding to reports of the impending appearance of a dragon on the campus Thursday, March 15, have issued a dragon warning and road closure alert for Thursday afternoon.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its regular meeting March 9 on campus, approved a tuition increase of $1,140 for undergraduate resident students in Cornell's statutory colleges for the academic year 2001-02.
Bird lovers across the region are invited to get to know their "neighbors" by signing up for the course Spring Field Ornithology offered by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
NASA and the State of New York will jointly fund a three-year program at Syracuse and Cornell universities to develop a virtual learning environment that uses advanced information technologies.
One of the hidden costs of welfare reform, both at the federal and state levels, is addressed by a new study at Cornell University. It finds that the marginally employed are almost four times more likely to be violent with their families than workers not on welfare.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. (BTI) has named plant molecular biologist David B. Stern as vice president for research. Stern succeeds Stephen H. Howell, who has accepted the directorship of the Plant Science Institute at Iowa State University.
Thanks to the early March nor'easter that has dumped more than 17 inches of snow on the city of salt, this has become the second snowiest season ever for Syracuse, N.Y. In fact, Syracuse is the snowiest city in the Northeast, according to climatologists at Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Novelist and visiting professor Richard Price will read from a work-in-progress Monday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell University campus.
Chemical signals at the most critical moment for new life in mammals – when sperm meets egg and attempts fertilization – evolve rapidly in a process driven by positive Darwinian selection, according to a Cornell study.
