The Cornell Research Foundation Inc., which puts much of Cornell University research to commercial use, has a new president. He is James A. Severson, previously a marketing director at the University of Minnesota.
D. Merrill Ewert, a faculty member in the Department of Education, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension by the deans of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
"Labor and Election-Year Politics" is the title and theme of this year's Union Days at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), April 13-16. Most events are free and open to the public. "The annual Union Days program is designed to raise awareness among students and others about the struggles of working people to better their lives and their communities," said Jefferson Cowie, assistant professor of collective bargaining, labor law and labor history at the ILR School and the event's organizer. "This year the focus will be on the central role that labor plays in electoral politics, making the week's events of interest to anyone concerned with justice in the workplace or the fate of the 2004 presidential elections." (April 8, 2004)
N.Y. -- If you plan to go over the river or through the woods this Thanksgiving, consider snow tires. The holiday falls on Nov. 28 this year, and for the northern parts of the northeast United States, that means a good chance of snow. Cornell University's Northeast Regional Climate Center predicts a 67 percent likelihood of an inch of snow on the ground in Caribou, Maine, on Thanksgiving morning, and a 34 percent possibility in Burlington, Vt. Not far behind is Concord, N.H., with a 29 percent chance. Keith Eggleston, senior climatologist at the center, based his predictions on a 30-year average of Northeast snowfall, from 1971 to 2000. (November 19, 2002)
Two Cornell University Nobel laureates spoke at the Triple Helix conference, Nov. 19. Triple Helix is an undergraduate organization founded at Cornell last year that now has 13 chapters and publishes a journal to bridge gaps among science, ethics, society and law. (November 22, 2005)
Six Cornell University professors have received monetary awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Cornell's universitywide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Program.
Ninth- and 10th-grade biology students in Seneca Falls, N.Y., are investigating social and scientific issues behind a controversial proposal to expand an existing landfill in their town. High school students in Ithaca are evaluating the relative toxicity, effectiveness and cost of different highway de-icing compounds to find the most environmentally friendly alternatives to road salt. And in 11 cities around the country, young people are working with elders to study plants, people and cultures in urban community gardens. Now, Environmental Inquiry, the Cornell University program that inspired these efforts, has earned the Environmental Quality Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is the agency's highest honor. (May 9, 2003)