Tickets are on sale until Oct. 24 for the Annual Cornell Employee Celebration, Nov. 1. The celebration features Cornell athletic events and a community dinner in Barton Hall, 3-5 p.m. (Oct. 2, 2008)
Endowed employees enrolled in the Cornell Program for Healthy Living will no longer need a fitness certificate to receive monthly discounts from fitness centers at Ithaca YMCA or Island Fitness. (Oct. 2, 2008)
For the second consecutive year, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has announced that Cornell has been named to its list of 'Top 100 Adoption-Friendly Workplaces.' (May 1, 2008)
The seventh annual Bartels Awards for Custodial Service Excellence, held Dec. 16 in Bartels Hall, recognized this year’s recipients of the Bartels scholarships and gave six housekeeping and custodial staff members Bartels Awards.
A.T. Miller, associate vice provost for academic diversity, opened the sixth annual Soup and Hope series, Jan. 17, using song, poetry and narrative to convey his reflections on hope.
Fifty new ILR students learned about Cornell as an employer in a special program Aug. 26 with Cornell Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Terri Whitaker, office manager at the Sage Management Library in the Johnson School and a trained emergency medical technician, recently saved the life of a Cornell student who had gone into cardiac arrest. (March 25, 2008)
At the 63rd annual Service Recognition Dinner June 5, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack and Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Mary Opperman paid tribute to 250 staff members who began working at Cornell 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years ago.
The National Association for Female Executives has recognized Cornell for its work/life programs for women, opportunity for advancement, the presence of women among Cornell executives and compensation. (March 18, 2008)