ITHACA, N.Y. -- Digitize mail and paper files so employees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environment and provide alcohol swabs and cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free. These are but a few of the "best alternative office practices" gleaned from more than 25 innovative companies and summarized in the new book "Managing the Reinvented Workplace" (International Development Research Council, 1996) by Cornell University professors and organizational ecologists William Sims, Ph.D., and Franklin Becker, Ph.D., with Michael Joroff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Five Cornell scientists in disciplines ranging from crop improvement to robotics will present their research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, Feb. 17-21. (Feb. 7, 2011)
Got a milk mustache? You can enter it in a contest when the Milk Mustache Mobile bellies up to the Cornell Dairy Bar July 26 from 1 to 5 p.m. The Ithaca winner of the milk-mustache contest will compete for a spot in an advertisement to appear in ESPN Magazine.
A new, essentially inexhaustible source of energy for the 21st century may result from experiments under way at Cornell University's Laboratory for Plasma Studies.
Hotel demand in large cities fluctuates more in response to personal income than to changes in hotel prices, according to a new study issued by the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research.
A Cornell study finds that in New York state, experienced fruit pickers are paid an average $10.65 per hour, and inexperienced dairy hands make $8.39 per hour, compared with the $7.25 minimum wage. (Feb. 2, 2011)
Cornell astronomer James Houck, who led the development of the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, received the American Astronomical Society's 2008 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation. (Jan. 23, 2008)
Cornell graduate students and families living at the Hasbrouck Apartments are working with Campus Life to prepare for the arrival of undergraduates to the complex.
Franoise Gaspard, professor of sociology at the famed Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School of Higher Education in Social Sciences) in Paris, will give two free and open lectures Oct. 21-22 at Cornell on women in politics in France.
Cornell student Douglas Lowe, Class of 2011, age 18, of Shelton, Conn., drowned June 12 in the turbulent waters of the Fall Creek Gorge. (June 13, 2008)