The university has established an institutionwide hotline service, via an agreement with EthicsPoint Inc., that gives faculty, staff and students a way to anonymously report irregularities and other concerns.
The telecommunications services industry continues to undergo major technological changes affecting the nature of work, skills, training and income in a commercial sector vital to the international competitiveness of the U.S. economy. To analyze the consequences of technological changes, employees within this sector, two professors in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations have launched a follow-up study.
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will visit Cornell to give a lecture on James Joyce on Thursday, Oct. 27, and participate in a colloquium on writing on Oct. 28.
For onion growers battling botrytis leaf blight, a crop-decimating disease, relief is on the way. Cornell University plant scientists have breached the plant's tough sexual barrier to cross two species and develop a first draft of a botrytis-resistant onion. The way is now paved for scientists to bring the onion to commercial quality and, perhaps, make it resistant to other diseases as well. Martha Mutschler, Cornell professor of plant breeding, will unveil her research team's results Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. at the 2004 Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo in the Riverside Convention Center's Bausch Room, Rochester, N.Y. Her research collaborators were Jim Lorbeer, Cornell professor of plant pathology; research associate Edward Cobb; and graduate student Pablo A. Goldschmied. (February 9, 2004)
Mycologist Paul Stamets, founder and leader of Fungi Perfecti of Olympia, Wash., will give a lecture, 'Mushrooms as Ecological Medicines for People and Planet.'
Cornell University Library has worked hard to improve document delivery services, enabling users to access current and older materials at their place and time of convenience.
The students will investigate 11 different topics through the grants, which are part of $1.7 million provided to research institutions in Qatar this year by the Qatar National Research Fund. (Feb. 24, 2010)
During a meeting of the full committee in the Cornell Club in Manhattan Sept. 21, PSC members got their first look at a database of more than 150 presidential nominees whose names were submitted through both formal and informal channels.
On four consecutive Thursdays beginning Jan. 24, Sage Chapel invites the Cornell community is to bring a bowl, enjoy soup with hearty bread and listen to stories of hope from Ithaca community members.
TV and stage star Jimmy Smits, MFA '82, spent the afternoon of Feb. 22 working with two acting classes and speaking with Latino students. (Feb. 23, 2010)