Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty , students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"An internship at a prestigious place ... demonstrates that the applicant had the intellect, drive and maturity to win a much-coveted position. But on the whole, substantive work is more important than prestige."
--Glenn C. Altschuler, dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, discussing why internships are "good for the resume" in his College Prep column in the Education Life section of The New York Times, April 14.
"Tuition increases in the public sector are not enough to make up for the cuts in state aid. I fully expect that faculty in the public institutions will lose ground to faculty of the private institutions."
--Ronald G. Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, in an article about faculty salaries in The New York Times, April 14.
"For understanding tomato ripening and eventually taste, this could be the Holy Grail."
--James J. Giovannoni, plant molecular biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell, describing his research team's discovery of a gene that controls ripening in tomatoes, in The Wall Street Journal, April 11. (See story in this edition, Page 7.)
"The Kuznets curve is neither a law nor even a central tendency. The pattern is that there is no pattern."
--Gary S. Fields, professor of labor economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, discussing research that tracks income disparities, quoted in the Economic Scene column in The New York Times, April 4.
"Our position is that the illegality of the detention does not depend on their status as citizens or aliens."
--Joseph Margulies, practitioner-in-residence at Cornell Law School, who represents parents of three detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay, in The Wall Street Journal, April 5.
"We use the public data. We have actually been able to mine the public data and there is enough there to keep us pretty busy. Half the genome is already published and public."
--Susan McCouch, associate professor of plant breeding, an article that reports
some restrictions will be placed on access to data on the sequence of the rice genome, in a
Reuters wire story, April 4.
"We're trying to operate a powerful rate of return for our investors, but we're also trying to provide a powerful education experience."
--Steven Sharratt, operations director of the Johnson School's Parker Center, on the student-managed Cayuga MBA Fund LLC, which beats its benchmark, Standard & Poor's, by 6.67 percent, in Business Week, March 25.
"Companies have tried to routinize these jobs, making them as similar as possible to the old assembly line work where you left your mind at home and tightened bolts all day. ... [Most call centers] make a priority of holding down labor costs, and as these jobs multiply, a large mass of women has become more vulnerable to layoffs and to what I would call plant closings."
--Rosemary Batt, associate professor of human resource studies, in a page 1 article on low wages and lack of security in jobs for workers in 800-number call centers, in The New York Times, March 27.