The Big Red Venture Fund, a venture capital group operated entirely by students of Cornell's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, has made its first investment in a biotechnology company founded by a student and an alumna.
Paid maternity leave, pay equity and comparable pay for work of comparable worth -- those and other benefits that aid all working women and their families today -- are such an integral part of the U.S. workplace that we almost take them for granted. But they might not exist at all were it not for the efforts of Cornell's Alice Hanson Cook, one of the first researchers to study the problems faced by working women. Her pioneering work has influenced generations of scholars and activists -- from unionists to public policy analysts to experts in feminist jurisprudence -- and led them to transform working women's issues into societal priorities. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Cook's birth. A faculty member at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations from the early 1950s on, she died in 1998 after making her mark as one of the top researchers in her field. A conference to honor Cook's legacy will be held on Cornell's campus starting Friday evening, Nov. 21, and running all day Saturday, Nov. 22. The Saturday presentations are free and open to the public. Most of the events are in 105 Ives Hall. (November 18, 2003)
John Boudreau, professor in the Department of Human Resources at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR). NAHR is considered the foremost professional organization in human resources in the United States.
Without enough estrogen-like hormone in their systems, female plainfin midshipman fish turn a deaf ear to the alluring love songs of the males. And, according to Cornell biologists, a similar steroid-sensitive response could underlie changes in the hearing sensitivity of humans.
Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director and co-chair of the Investment Policy Committee of Goldman, Sachs & Co., will deliver the 1997 Durland Lecture on Wednesday, April 9.
The Cornell School of Chemical Engineering is celebrating the career of retiring professor Ferdinand Rodriguez with a symposium on Friday, Oct. 15, from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in 165 Olin Hall.
Nine land-grant university libraries -- the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University among them -- have received a two-year, $850,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and protect brittle agricultural volumes.
Complex computing problems as different as modeling Earth's climate system, predicting effects of regulatory change in the dairy industry or serving a semester's worth of lecture videos to student dormitories will operate on a scalable distributed network of powerful desktop computers, thanks in part to a $6 million grant from Intel Corp. to Cornell.
The Cornell University Home Study Program is changing its name to the Cornell University Food Industry Management Distance Education Program, said George S. Hayward, director of the program.