The Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality has launched a Web site to answer questions on implementing flexible work arrangements. (Dec. 11, 2008)
NEW YORK -- The year got off to a furious start for Cornellians in the Big Apple. Events relating to art, music, theater and work were just a few of the offerings during January.
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Architect Peter Eisenman '54 has earned Popular Science 'innovator' status for his radical design of the new University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. (Jan. 8, 2007)
ILR Professor Samuel Bacharach's workplace stress survey found New York City transport workers were often exposed daily to workplace hazards and experienced traumatic incidents regularly.
What's the best way to get a statistically reliable sample of people who are hard to identify, such as illegal-drug users in large cities, itinerant jazz musicians, aging Manhattan artists and semi-professional storytellers? Answer: Use a new "pyramid" sampling method developed by a Cornell University sociologist. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use the method to recruit injection drug users (IDUs) and measure their HIV-risk behavior in the 25 U.S. cities with the largest number of AIDS cases. (November 19, 2004)
President David Skorton issued a statement June 15 on the White House's announcement that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
Displaced Tulane students came together for a whirlwind orientation meeting at Cornell Sept. 8, just a day and a half after most arrived in Ithaca after evacuating their New Orleans campus.