Joan and Sanford Weill have given $50 million to Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative, which will be directly applied to the Life Sciences Technology Building taking shape on the Ithaca campus. (June 13, 2007)
Workers in the burgeoning Internet/digital design industry jockey for survival in one of the fastest growing employment sectors in the United States. Confronted with rapid changes in "new media" markets and technology, these highly-skilled professionals face serious labor challenges, according to Susan Christopherson.
Events on campus this week include Sabine Haenni introducing 'Chinatown,' guitar lessons, a lecture on psychoanalysis, 'Soiree/Cabaret!' premiere, concerts and a brown bag lunch for Reimagining Cornell.
Discover “Evolution in Your Backyard” and celebrate the life and ideas of Charles Darwin at campus and community events for Ithaca’s annual Darwin Days celebration, through Feb. 14.
NEW YORK -- New York City firefighters are able to create self-managing, tightly coordinated teams that enable them to do their jobs more quickly and effectively than other work groups, a new Cornell University study shows. However, the trauma of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center terrorist attacks continues to take its toll, with more depression, anxiety and stress still experienced by those who were there when the Twin Towers fell. In November 2002, the Smithers Institute at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) announced that it would undertake an independent study proposed by the UFA Health and Safety office, led by Philip McArdle. To ensure the independence of the study, it was fully funded by the Smithers Institute. The study focused on the working conditions and emotional health of New York City firefighters after Sept. 11. Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 firefighters and fire officers on such workplace issues as supervision, decision making, communications, job hazards, involvement in rescue efforts following the Sept. 11 attacks, post-traumatic stress, drinking, anxiety and depression. (April 2, 2004)
Food science professor Dr. Rui Hai Liu won the 2016 General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award for his contributions to cereal grain and grain component research.
Events on campus this week include the MLK Commemorative Lecture, Howardena Pindell, a talk on immigration, opening of the Jewish Film Festival, Jazz Ensembles' Swing Fling, and Savion Glover. (Feb. 17, 2011)
College of Veterinary Medicine professor Dr. Robin Radcliffe is raising local awareness of two vanishing rhino species in Indonesia via a book for Indonesian children, “The Hornless Rhinoceros."