On Nov. 1, the InterFraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at Cornell will host a Public Service Day.
Cornell students, including members of fraternity and sorority councils, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Nov. 1. Activities include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility poles, and open spaces.
International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal -- the first U.S. book dealing exclusively with cross-border deals -- is set to be published by John Wiley & Sons on Nov. 28.
Cornell announced today the endowment of a $50,000 fellowship, the IBM University Partnership Award, to support outstanding students of computer and computational science at Cornell. The fellowship, which will begin in Fall 1998, will be administered through the Cornell Theory Center.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A Cornell University study has found that four out of 10 contract workers are satisfied with their nonpermanent employee status. The finding, included in the study "Contract Workers: How Do They Feel About Their Deal?" dismisses the long-held belief that most individuals employed as office temps, for example, are unhappy with their status as nonpermanent employees and are simply waiting for permanent jobs. A contract or temporary worker is an individual who is employed full time in a nonpermanent position.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The sea may soon concede more of its seismic secrets. In this week's journal Science, university researchers report that a network of instruments will soon be deployed and placed on the ocean floor, giving humanity a precious tool to predict and track tsunamis in real time. Tsunamis -- giant seismic sea waves, sometimes as high as a five-story building -- can crash against coastal communities, kill thousands of people instantly and devastate property. They are produced by undersea earthquakes, or landslides or volcanic eruptions.
Despite dramatic losses in wild honeybees and in colonies maintained by hobbyist beekeepers, Cornell apiculturists say the pollination needs of commercial agriculture in the United States are being met.
A research consortium led by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations has been awarded a two-year $400,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for an international project titled "Workers in the Global Economy."
Today, about 780 million people in developing countries still do not have access to enough food to meet their basic daily needs for nutritional well-being. To review the nature of hunger and malnutrition in the world today, describe the causes and ways to deal with hunger and malnutrition and discuss international food and nutrition issues.
NASA today (Oct. 21, 1997) awarded a $154 million grant to Cornell University to lead and direct close-proximity comet fly-bys scheduled for launch early in the next century.
CONTOUR's goals are to dramatically improve of comet nuclei and to assess their diversity. The targets span the range from evolved comet (Encke) to a future on the exploratory results from the Halley flybys, and will extend the of data obtained by NASA's Stardust and ESA's Rosetta understanding of comets.
