The ILR School's Labor and Employment Law Program will begin work on a $4.9 million contract to establish the Records Assistance Program to help job applicants with criminal records get jobs.
Cornell graduate students will suggest eco-friendly uses for 1.5 million cubic yards of dredged material taken from Baltimore Harbor and Maryland’s Patapsco River.
In one of the largest Halloween Happenings contests in recent years, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences staff, dressed as “Weather Super Heroes and Villains,” won “judges’ choice” overall, with second place in “judges’ choice” going to “Rosie the Riveter”– a group including staff from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Direct-to-consumer advertising of cholesterol medications may promote overdiagnosis and overtreatment among low-risk populations, but are not helping high-risk consumers, reports a new Cornell study.
Horticulture graduate student Bryan Sobel went to Rwanda to help women learn to cultivate mushrooms, a crop that can help the genocide-ravaged nation recover.
Economist and compensation and labor market scholar Kevin F. Hallock, the Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been named dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
A new project received a $100,000 planning grant from the NSF to create a proposal for an Engineering Research Center for sustainable energy-smart solutions.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers weeklong leadership training workshops twice a year to help faculty members improve their interpersonal skills. (Feb. 2, 2009)