Just one month after the terrorist attacks in the United States, more than 70 national and state leaders and college and university presidents, staff and students from across New York gathered to celebrate the signing of the charter for the New York Campus Compact (NYCC) at Pace University in lower Manhattan, six blocks west of the World Trade Center site.
Engineers for a Sustainable World, a nonprofit organization based at Cornell, sponsored students to work on engineering projects in developing countries this summer.
This fall, the Cornell Tradition is celebrating 20 years of rewarding excellence in undergraduate service, work and scholarship. Cornell University's alumni-supported recognition program awards 600 fellowships each year to undergraduate students based on their work experience, campus and/or community service, leadership and academic achievement. In 2000, the program was recognized as a Daily Point of Light by President George W. Bush's Points of Light Foundation. (September 10, 2002)
Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin announced today (Sept. 5) that she has appointed a faculty committee to begin the search for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Before leaving for their internships, students in the Engineering Co-op program at Cornell attended a banquet where they listened to Robert Shutt of RASolutions give business dining etiquette advice.
A new study of upstate New York's economy by three Cornell University faculty members confirms that the region continues to lag behind much of the rest of the nation and, as a result, is losing its best and brightest young people to regions with more better-paying jobs in vibrant urban centers. The only bright spots in the otherwise bleak report are higher education and health care. The report quantifies how the region has never fully rebounded from the deindustrialization that began in the 1970s and continues to the present. Today, upstate remains far behind the national average in income and job growth, with average wages rising little more than 2 percent from 1980 to 2000, compared with 15 percent in the rest of the nation. However, the report also shows that jobs in the region are beginning to diversify -- a positive change. The researchers call for concerted state policy efforts backed by federal support to spur further economic health. (March 18, 2004)
A new study by three Cornell faculty members that is the first to compare death row demographics with murder statistics produced some findings that are just as likely to surprise both sides of the political spectrum as they are to confirm popularly held beliefs.
Dr. JoAnn Difede, a psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and an expert in the treatment of trauma, is using virtual reality exposure therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of the WTC attacks, as well as to treat a number of phobias in the general public.
The Latino Studies Program at Cornell University has a new director and, for the first time in its history, an associate director as well. Philip Lewis, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has appointed two faculty members.
Investments in upstate New York's Canal Corridor communities are generating a much broader range of jobs, among them high-skilled, high-paying jobs throughout the region, a Cornell University study released today shows.