When Charlie Rockhill, a single father of two young teen-agers, lost his job after a back injury, his income plummeted to $148 a week, which he supplemented with $86 a month in food stamps.
Kwame Ture, who as Stokely Carmichael was a leading spokesman for the Black Power Movement of the 1960s, will give a lecture at Cornell on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. in Robert Purcell Union.
Kenneth F. Kahn, founder of LRP Publications and publisher of Human Resource Executive, has received the 1997 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
The Listeria Outbreak Working Group, a collaboration of scientists and public health professionals organized by Cornell, has won the prestigious U.S. Department of Agriculture Honor Award, one of the highest awards bestowed by the agency.
Artists, educators and authors will gather on the Cornell next month for a public symposium to discuss the teaching of creativity and the presence and import of the arts and artistic intelligence across the disciplines of the university.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is the keynote speaker for Union Days 2001, a three-day event hosted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, April 4, 5 and 6.
An analysis of 20 years of data on the health of over 900 adults has found that long-term use of traditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen, cuts the risk for oral cancer in smokers by half.