Cornell's plan to outsource student e-mail launches in April as students are offered access to Google Apps Education Edition for e-mail, calendars and collaboration tools. (May 19, 2009)
Physicists including Cornell's Edwin Salpeter and Kurt Gottfried sent a letter to Congress last week urging measures to restrict the use of nuclear weapons by the United States. (Feb. 13, 2007)
The human love affair with chocolate is at least 3,000 years old, according to new evidence from the Ulua Valley region of Honduras. But the first people to appreciate the cacao tree were probably after a fermented drink. (Nov. 14, 2007)
In an effort to enhance the university's diverse representation within nonacademic staff, the Office of Human Resources (OHR) has been working for the past year on a new initiative to increase recruitment and applicant tracking.
Helene R. Dillard, Cornell University professor of plant pathology, has been appointed director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and associate dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and New York State College of Human Ecology. She succeeds D. Merrill Ewert, who took the position of president of Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, Calif., this past summer. Dillard's appointment begins Oct. 1. (September 30, 2002)
Scott Emr, a highly respected biologist, who has been hired as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 endowed director of a new Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Each year, the American Association of Retired Persons honors 50 employers in the United States for their practices and policies for mature workers with its "AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50" list. Cornell is ranked No. 5 this year, and it is the only college or university to be named from New York state. (August 31, 2005)
ILR School student Vicente Gonzalez '11 has been elected to serve a two-year term as student representative on the Mortar Board National Council. (Sept. 9, 2010)
Cornell still has a lot of work to do to become 'a place where we all feel respected, safe and included,' said Associate Dean Sheri Notaro in opening a May 9 community forum on diversity issues.