Farah Hussain '05, a local youth and sustainability activist with a worldwide vision, believes that young people have what it takes to solve the world's most-pressing problems.
"Some people only see youths' negative attributes,"…
Apolo Nsibambi, prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, will speak at Cornell at noon Monday, July 2, in the Founder's Room of Anabel Taylor Hall. His talk is titled "Ugandan Elections of March 2001: Political and Constitutional Significance."
Two-career couples in the United States continue to struggle in managing conflicting family and work demands. Increasingly outdated workplace and work-hour policies based on the one-career-per-family model, they find, have little regard for the needs of workers, their spouses or their families, according to a Cornell University sociologist. A new book, It's About Time: Couples and Careers (Cornell University Press), edited by Phyllis Moen, the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies at Cornell and director of the Cornell Careers Institute, says that U.S. employers need to create new career paths that support dual-career couples. These options should have innovative flexibility, such as reduced work hours for new parents and semiretired workers whose benefits and future career options would be protected. (March 11, 2003)
Rosa A. Clemente, who received a master of professional studies degree from Cornell in 2002, has been named the 2008 vice presidential candidate by the Green Party. Her running mate is Cynthia McKinney. (July 16, 2008)
PULSE, a showcase of student-run startups, was held April 7 in Sage Atrium. After that event, students were invited to the grand opening of PopShop, a co-working space at 206B Dryden Road. (April 9, 2012)
Economist David Card said at a public talk March 15 that immigrants tended to take jobs at the high and low ends of the wage spectrum, and their wages don't affect Americans' salaries. (March 17, 2011)
After finding low worker satisfaction in her country, Haitian student Nemdia Daceney continued her research at Cornell this summer hoping to show employers and government officials the human dimension of economic development policies.
Bad things happen to good parents. In a new book, Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life, Professor James Garbarino and researcher Claire Bedard of Cornell help today's parents regain control of difficult children.
The annual College Sustainability Report Card lists Cornell as one of about two dozen 'Campus Sustainability Leaders,' but faults the university for not making its investment decisions public. (Feb. 7, 2007)