Finishing its first year as a university-supported organization, SWAG: Scholars Working Ambitiously to Graduate had 30 pairings of mentors and mentees, with 13 seniors on track to graduate this May.
The ILR School's master of professional studies program in New York City, which includes courses on collective bargaining, human resource management and labor economics, observes its tenth anniversary. (Feb. 2, 2010)
Cornell and the Africana Studies and Research Center are co-sponsoring a major international conference, 'Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan,' at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 21-22. (Feb. 19, 2008)
The Employee Free Choice Act would permit workers to unionize without a secret ballot election if more than half of the employees at a workplace sign union recognition cards. (Oct. 31, 2008)
Whether the European Union or Asia will reign as the global regional power was a focus of a panel discussion to celebrate a new Cornell student journal, the Cornell International Affairs Review. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Positive bias in online consumer reviews has become almost standard industry practice, but plagiarizing user reviews and passing them off as authentic is another animal altogether, says a new Cornell study that has been tracking that other animal. (December 12, 2005)
Psychologists Charles Brainerd and Valerie Reyna are looking for ways to identify people at risk for developing cognitive impairment - early on, when chances for successful intervention are highest. (Jan. 25, 2010)
Michael P. Riley Jr. has been promoted to associate dean of alumni affairs, development and communications by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
What's the best way for a university to promote the mental health of its students? For Cornell, it's caring for the whole person through a comprehensive public health approach. (Feb. 23, 2011)
Interdisciplinary computer scientist Daniel Huttenlocher has been named dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, as of July 1. He succeeds Robert Constable, whose second five-year term ends June 30.