The Cornell United Way Campaign not only exceeded its goal of $660,000, but surpassed the $700,000 mark in pledges. The 2006 campaign officially closes March 31. (March 7, 2007)
Having dinner with a potential employer? Spare the salt and mind your manners, Cornell hospitality expert Barbara Lang told a group of students, March 6 on campus. (March 7, 2007)
Five former flight attendants recently visited Weill Cornell to announce a pledge of $8.7 million to fund an initiative that will study the effects of secondhand smoke on 'never smokers.' (March 7, 2007)
Sunlight alone can change the way an asteroid and other small bodies spin in space, suggests a new study led by astronomers at Cornell and Queen's University Belfast. (March 7, 2007)
Eleanor Lanahan spoke about her grandparents, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, at the opening of the exhibition 'Zelda by Herself: The Art of Zelda Fitzgerald,' March 5. (March 7, 2007)
Thomas P. LiVigne, manager of real estate operations at Cornell, will take over for John Majeroni as interim director, effective April 2. (March 7, 2007)
Daylight-saving time will start three weeks earlier this year, on Sunday, March 11, and end one week later, on Sunday, Nov. 4, and most Windows and Mac computers will require an operating system update. (March 7, 2007)
Mary F. Berens, director of alumni affairs, has been named senior campaign officer for Cornell's ambitious $4 billion fund-raising campaign. Her appointment to this newly created position is effective Sept. 1. (March 7, 2007)
In the late 1840s, Ezra Cornell was discouraged working in the budding telegraph business. He was rarely home and the business was chaotic. (March 7, 2007)
The Codes and Judicial Committee delivered its report on proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct and the university's judicial system to the University Assembly March 6. (March 6, 2007)