More than 100 Cornell students from across campus discussed opportunities for careers in the U.S. labor and social justice movements with 18 labor professionals Sept. 16, as part of the Third Annual Labor Roundtable.
Cornell is establishing a lecture series to honor two of the nation's most eminent mathematicians, David Blackwell of the University of California at Berkeley and Richard Tapia of Rice University.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations will hold a symposium in memory of noted Cornell sociologist William Foote Whyte, Friday, April 6, at 2 p.m. in Room 115 of Ives Hall on campus.
While Chuck Feeney's name is not attached to any building or professorship, the Hotel School graduate is behind only Ezra Cornell and A.D. White in his overall contributions to the university, according to President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes. (Sept. 27, 2007)
The Johnson Graduate School of Management has established the Center for Leadership in Dynamic Organizations, which will host its first Leadership Week, slated for March 26 to April 1, 2001, on campus. The week is comprised of three major events: an academic symposium, a corporate conference and a graduate student business conference.
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.
Thousands of volunteers have a new assignment from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – documenting the impact of West Nile virus while counting birds for the 2002-03 season of Project FeederWatch.
Helene R. Dillard, Cornell University professor of plant pathology, has been appointed director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and associate dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and New York State College of Human Ecology. She succeeds D. Merrill Ewert, who took the position of president of Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, Calif., this past summer. Dillard's appointment begins Oct. 1. (September 30, 2002)
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)