Imagine that it's a frigid 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Salt trucks are out on the roads, and children are building snowmen. It's a perfect day to harvest lettuce.
More than 35 Buffalo workers got a raise this year and many more will soon get one, thanks to the persistence of a volunteer commission headed by Lou Jean Fleron, a Cornell University faculty member. The group is Buffalo's Living Wage Commission, the only unpaid citizen's group in the country charged with enforcing a city's living wage law (about 100 cities across the country have a living wage ordinance). (September 3, 2004)
At a March 22 workshop aimed to encourage grade-school girls to pursue science and technology, Girl Scouts decoded secret messages and investigated a scene to earn scouting detective badges, among other activities.
Tommy Bruce, vice president for university communications, recently met with Chronicle editors to discuss the forthcoming changes in the way the Chronicle delivers the news. (May 8, 2009)
The Meinig Family Cornell National Scholars has announced its Excellence in Leadership Awards recognizing nine of its students for their exceptionally strong and successful leadership. The recipients from this past academic year…
Cornell's American Indian Program will honor elders Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, and Tom Porter, spokesman and chief spiritual leader of the Mohawk community of Kanatsiohareke, in Fonda, N.Y., on Friday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in David L. Call Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
James VanEe, director of information technology for the Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies, was elected co-chair of the Cornell Computing Directors for a two-year term. (Sept. 29, 2008)
Last year, the Cornell women's lacrosse team achieved its greatest success in years, earning a top 15 ranking in the nation and winning the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship.
"We have a moment. A moment to transform the situation. It is not a moment, by the way, to make peace. It is a moment to end the war," said former U.S. Ambassador Dennis B. Ross, speaking April 27 in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell as this year's Bartels World Affairs Fellow. Ross was referring to the decades-old war between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Harry Katz, the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining, was reappointed dean of the ILR School by the Cornell Board of Trustees. His second term begins in 2010. (May 27, 2009)