Journey to the center of the brain
NEW YORK (September 30, 2005) -- A research study by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center neurosurgeon demonstrates that surgeons who use an endoscope to biopsy or resect intraventricular brain tumors in patients without hydrocephalus achieve equal if not better results than similar cases where hydrocephalus is present.

Student-built solar house arrives in D.C. for national competition
Cornell's Solar Decathlon house -- a full-scale home that uses only the sun's energy -- has arrived in Washington, D.C., in time for the Department of Energy's solar house contest on the National Mall, Oct. 7 to 14. (September 29, 2005)

Looks matter to female barn swallows
Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality -- females judge males by their looks: the reddish color of the males' breast and belly feathers. (September 29, 2005)

'Cybertools' project receives $2 million NSF grant
A team of Cornell researchers has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop advanced Web tools for social sciences research. (September 28, 2005)

Conversations fuel faculty-student brunch sessions
Sunday brunches in Appel Commons hosted by medieval studies professor Paul Hyams feature special guest speakers and students in informal conversation that, like the brunch buffet, is colorful, diverse and never less than filling. (September 28, 2005)

The Buzz on book arts: Cornell professor makes art from words
Hand Buzz Spector a book, and there's a good chance he'll destroy it. Read a profile of the Cornell art professor and art department chair, who has meticulously torn the pages of hundreds of books to create cascading images within their bindings. (September 28, 2005)

Access to scholarly resources keeps getting easier
Cornell University Library has worked hard to improve document delivery services, enabling users to access current and older materials at their place and time of convenience. (September 28, 2005)

(CL)3 multimedia production laboratory marks its first year
The Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory, also known as (CL)3, in Uris Library marked its first anniversary in August. Approximately 10,000 users have taken advantage of the lab during public hours, and seven courses use the lab for all or some of their classes. (September 28, 2005)

Diversity Digest: Enhancing employment opportunities
In an effort to enhance the university's diverse representation within nonacademic staff, the Office of Human Resources (OHR) has been working for the past year on a new initiative to increase recruitment and applicant tracking. (September 28, 2005)

Why student advisers should make their roles known on campus
In a letter to the editor, Dean of Students Kent Hubbell writes about the role of advisers to student groups on campus. (September 28, 2005)

Oct. 10 symposium honors Jean-Pierre Habicht
Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences is sponsoring a celebration symposium, The Changing Face of Human Nutrition: 1965-2005, to honor the career of Jean-Pierre Habicht, the James Jamison Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology Emeritus, on Oct.10. (September 28, 2005)

Technology Review names Cornellians to 'TR 35'
Technology Review magazine has named Matthew DeLisa, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Rajit Manohar, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, to its list of top technology innovators under 35. (September 27, 2005)

Cornell finance professor gives prestigious Oxford lectures
Maureen O'Hara, the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, was invited to present the Clarendon Lectures at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School this past June. (September 27, 2005)

Self-driving vehicle will tackle 175 miles of desert
A team of Cornell University engineers has built a self-driving vehicle to enter the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, in which a vehicle must cross 175 miles of battlefield-like terrain entirely under computer control. (September 27, 2005)

Computer Science to celebrate 40 years with alumni symposium
Cornell's Department of Computer Science will celebrate its 40th anniversary Oct. 1 with a symposium featuring several alumni who now hold prestigious positions in industry and academia. (September 27, 2005)

Turkey is the focus of a weeklong cultural and intellectual immersion
"Turkey: Culture, Change and Development," a weeklong program featuring numerous cultural events, photography exhibits, films, readings and leading-edge forums, is now under way at Cornell. (September 27, 2005)

Cornell employees launch new hurricane relief effort
Cornell employees request donations of personal care items for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. (September 27, 2005)

Presidential Search Committee begins winnowing down list of candidates
During a meeting of the full committee in the Cornell Club in Manhattan Sept. 21, PSC members got their first look at a database of more than 150 presidential nominees whose names were submitted through both formal and informal channels. (September 27, 2005)

CU virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs
Cornell veterinarian Ed Dubovi isolated an equine flu virus that has for the first time jumped species to dogs, causing respiratory flu to spread among man's best friends, according to a paper published in the Sept. 26 issue of Science Express. (September 27, 2005)

New Office of Postdoctoral Studies will create community for CU scholars
A new Office of Postdoctoral Studies has been established by the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Cornell, in 384 Caldwell Hall. The goal: to create both an identity and a community for postdoctoral fellows. (September 27, 2005)

Eisner wins 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
Thomas Eisner, a world authority on animal behavior, ecology and evolution, is the winner of Rockefeller University's 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. Eisner is the J.G. Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology. (September 27, 2005)

Cornell marks first Constitution Day
Cornell University commemorated Constitution Day Friday, Sept. 23, with a discussion that challenged the modern interpretation of one of the living document's most fundamental tenets: the separation of church and state. (September 27, 2005)

Materials Science and Engineering celebrates 40th anniversary
Cornell's Department of Materials Science and Engineering marked 40 years with a daylong symposium Sept. 20 titled "Materials Science and Engineering in 2020." (September 27, 2005)

Labor leaders inspire students to careers that 'make a difference'
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 at Cornell University. (September 27, 2005)

Head Start founder Urie Bronfenbrenner dies at 88
Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Psychology at Cornell University, a co-founder of the national Head Start program and one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology, died at his home in Ithaca, N.Y., Sept. 25. He was 88. (September 26, 2005)

In a funky setting, Science Cabaret debuts with 'Postcards from Mars'
Ithaca area residents turned out for the debut of Science Cabaret, a public event featuring talks and discussion sessions in informal social venues. Jim Bell, a Cornell astronomer and leader of the Mars Exploration Rover Pancam team, showed photos from the mission. (September 26, 2005)

Unwed mothers are less likely to marry, study shows
Unwed mothers are significantly less likely to marry; when they do marry, they are less likely to improve their socioeconomic status through marriage than their childless counterparts, says a Cornell University study. The results have implications for marriage promotion policies. (September 26, 2005)

Ken Grouf '93 urges students to become social entrepreneurs
Ken Grouf '93, founder and co-executive director of City Year New York, a member of AmeriCorps, urged students to become active citizens and "social entrepreneurs" in his Iscol lecture Sept. 20. (September 22, 2005)

Letter to the editor: Cornell American article incites bigotry
Vice Provost Robert L. Harris Jr. writes a response to an article that appeared in the September issue of The Cornell American, an independent conservative journal. (September 22, 2005)

Letter to the editor: Time for reflection, not vandalism
Student Calvin Geoffrey Selth writes a response to criticism and vandalism of the fifth-anniversary celebration of the "Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds" initiative and the commemorative arches on campus. (September 22, 2005)

Name change for Cornell communicators group reflects what members do
The Cornell Editors Group, whose members have been lunching and learning every month for 23 years, is now communicators@cornell. The name change better reflects the membership, which, in addition to editors of all stripes, includes writers, graphic designers, production coordinators, Web workers and photographers. (September 22, 2005)

Cornell Innovations: How CCTEC works
Most people recognize that Cornell is a place where knowledge is created. Very few think about what happens next. In future editions of this Cornell Innovations column, we'll describe some of the great ideas -- and maybe even some of the not-so-great -- that have been dreamed up by Cornellians. (September 22, 2005)

Qatari students reap summer of research in the city
Eleven outstanding students in the Class of 2008 at Cornell University's Middle East outpost in Doha, Qatar, were selected to spend the summer in New York City for the first annual eight-week Summer Research Fellowship Program. (September 22, 2005)

Weill Cornell prepares for an aging America
As more adults reach their 75th birthday, their acute and complex medical needs present a challenge beyond routine geriatric care. KEYWORDS: geriatric medicine (September 22, 2005)

White coat ceremony ushers medical students into lifetime at the bedside
Forget fashion forecasts -- the Class of 2009 knows its color of choice for the next four years. As they donned their white coats Aug. 24, they officially assumed the mantle of the medical student. (September 22, 2005)

CU in the City: Alumni reach out to Katrina victims
On Sept. 10 close to 100 Cornell alumni, family and friends filled the Cornell Club to give the smallest victims of Hurricane Katrina a little something to hearten their spirits. KEYWORDS: (September 22, 2005)

Cornell events highlights for the week Sept. 22-29
From concerts and films to international dance, check out this week's event highlights at Cornell. (September 22, 2005)

Cornell prepares contingency plans for commuters
With the recent rejection of the negotiated tentative agreement between Tompkins County Area Transit (TCAT) and the union representing its drivers and mechanics, Cornell University has announced alternative parking arrangements for Cornell TCAT patrons who are concerned about possibly being left stranded in the event of a midday work stoppage. (September 22, 2005)

Cornell files amicus brief in Solomon Amendment case
Cornell has joined with Columbia University, New York University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and the University of Chicago in filing a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. (September 21, 2005)

NanoScale Science and Technology Facility names interim director
John Silcox, the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering, will begin Oct. 1 serving as interim director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility. (September 21, 2005)

Cornell society invites bioethics discussions
Syphilis. Race. Doctors objectifying their patients. David Feldshuh, a physician and Cornell theatre professor discussed these themes Sept. 19 at a weekly meeting of the Bioethics Society of Cornell. (September 21, 2005)

City's residents discuss racial and environmental issues in Katrina's aftermath
In the Sept. 19 public forum "Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath: Race, Class and the Environment," four panelists discussed the difficulties in the poorer parishes of New Orleans. (September 21, 2005)

Morgenroth explores the choreographer's art in 'Speaking of Dance'
Associate professor of dance Joyce Morgenroth explores the creative processes of revolutionary dance artists in her book "Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft." (September 21, 2005)

Northeast Sun Grant Institute at Cornell spurs 'green revolution'
Cornell University has been tapped as one of five Sun Grant Centers of Excellence -- regional hubs that will solicit and fund proposals that focus on using renewable agricultural resources to produce heat, electricity and fuel, natural products, such as biopesticides and bioherbicides, and industrial chemicals. (September 20, 2005)

Professor Jon Kleinberg receives MacArthur 'Genius Award'
The MacArthur Foundation today (Sept. 20) named Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, among the 25 new MacArthur Fellows -- the so-called "Genius Awards" -- for 2005. He will be given $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years. (September 19, 2005)

New Orleans students settle in; Rawlings issues hurricane relief policy
The 204 students from Tulane, Xavier and the University of New Orleans have begun to blend into the campus, and Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has issued a new leave policy for faculty and staff involved in Katrina relief efforts. (September 19, 2005)

Hospitality executives, professors discuss leadership at annual roundtable
Eighteen prominent hospitality executives and 12 faculty members at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration analyzed the quality of leadership at the 2005 Leadership Roundtable Sept. 8 in the Statler Hotel. The event was sponsored by the Hotel School's Center for Hospitality Research. (September 19, 2005)

Expert on sustainability tells how he would rebuild New Orleans
Robert Young '82, a visiting lecturer in city and regional planning and executive director of the New Jersey Office of Sustainability, discussed his vision for rebuilding New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 15. The event was sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Progressive Policy (September 19, 2005)

Nomination are sought for 2006 Rhodes professorships
Nominations for the 2006 Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professorship are now being sought from all from all members of the Cornell community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni and Cornell groups and organizations. (September 19, 2005)

Friends and colleagues remember Hans Bethe at ceremony
Friends, colleagues and protégés celebrated the life of Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe in a ceremony Sept. 18 in Statler Auditorium. (September 19, 2005)

Computing services outage scheduled for Sept. 24-25
From 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, through noon Sunday, Sept. 25, many Cornell University central computing services will be unavailable. (September 19, 2005)

Cornell's Office of Publications and Marketing wins design awards
Two projects by the Cornell Office of Publications and Marketing have won top prizes in the 2005 University and College Design Association competition. (September 19, 2005)

Cornell observes Constitution Day on Sept. 23
Cornell University will mark Constitution Day on Friday, Sept. 23, with a program in Goldwin Smith Hall featuring President Hunter R. Rawlings and government Professor Isaac Kramnick. (September 19, 2005)

Protein structure key for AIDS, cell function
Cornell researchers have discovered the 3-D structure of a protein, human CD38, which may lead to important information about how cells release calcium -- a mineral used in almost every cellular process -- and also may offer insights into mechanisms involved with diseases ranging from leukemia to diabetes and HIV-AIDS. (September 19, 2005)

Chinua Achebe meets with student essay winners
The 10 student winners of an essay contest on "Things Fall Apart" are honored along with author Chinua Achebe at a reception. (September 19, 2005)

The search: Candidate recommendations are arriving daily
The search for Cornell University's next president is moving apace. Candidate recommendations, many from Cornell faculty, continue to arrive daily. (September 19, 2005)

Peter Eisenman makes predictions for tomorrow's architects
Looking energetic and vigorous at 73, Peter Eisenman '54, B.Arch. '55, addressed why "Architecture Matters" to a full house in Kennedy Hall's Call auditorium Sept. 13, 2005. His talk was the first in the 2005-06 dean's lecture series sponsored by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (September 16, 2005)

In response to Hurricane Katrina: A statement by President Rawlings
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings issues statement on Hurricane Katrina relief efforts (September 16, 2005)

Forum on effects of Katrina and race, class, environment
New Orleans experts will speak at a free, public forum, "Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath: Race, Class and the Environment" Monday, Sept. 19. (September 16, 2005)

Boojums help turn physicist David Mermin into offbeat science writer
This profile of Cornell University physicist David Mermin looks at his teaching and writing about science for nonscientists, playing the piano and his introduction of Lewis Caroll's nonsense word "boojum" into the technical vocabulary of superfluids. (September 15, 2005)

Student David Evan Todd hones his visual, vocal talents
Incoming students are typically advised to make the most of their time at Cornell. Fifth-year student David Evan Todd has taken that dictum further than most. (September 15, 2005)

Introducing new members of the faculty
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, Chronicle Online is publishing brief new-faculty profiles through December. (September 15, 2005)

Ceres unofficially upgraded from asteroid to miniplanet
What was thought of as the solar system's largest asteroid, 1 Ceres, has been upgraded unofficially to a miniplanet, says Cornell University's Peter Thomas in the Sept. 9 issue of the journal Nature. New photos show that it is a sphere. (September 15, 2005)

Faculty Work Life Survey begins
The Provost's Advisory Committee on Faculty Work Life is initiating a survey of faculty that will run from Sept. 15 through Oct. 24. (September 15, 2005)

Ingraffea, Guckenheimer strengthen Theory Center management team
Professor John Guckenheimer has been appointed associate dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, and Professor Tony Ingraffea has been appointed acting director of Cornell Theory Center. (September 15, 2005)

Cornell to celebrate the life of Hans Bethe Sept. 18
The world will remember Hans Bethe for centuries -- for his unparalleled contributions to physics, his advocacy for peace and his generosity of spirit. On Sept. 18, Cornell University will honor him. (September 14, 2005)

Excavation begins for $140 million life sciences building
Digging out the foundation for the new $140 million Life Sciences Technology Building is no simple feat. A crew with 15 dump trucks began hauling dirt mid-August and expect to complete the mass excavation on Tower Road east of Garden Avenue by the end of October. (September 14, 2005)

Presidential Search Committee gets doctors' orders
Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7: "Figure out what you really want before you go fishing." (September 14, 2005)

Family expert and author Stephanie Coontz to speak on marriage
CANCELED Sept. 20 Best-selling author Stephanie Coontz will give a public lecture, "Courting Disaster? The Worldwide Revolution in Marriage," Sept. 21 in Goldwin Smith Hall. Her lecture is sponsored by the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell, in conjunction with its Evolving Family theme project. (September 14, 2005)

Cornell event highlights, Sept. 15-22
From films to concerts to lectures, check out this week's event highlights at Cornell; Sept. 15-22. (September 14, 2005)

Carolyn Klass receives 2005 Gold Medal of Horticulture
Carolyn Klass, a senior extension associate in entomology at Cornell University was honored by the New York State Nursery and Landscape Association with their 2005 Gold Medal of Horticulture. Klass directs the insect diagnostic laboratory at Cornell and conducts outreach and extension work. (September 14, 2005)

Tulane, Xavier students settle in, learn the ropes at Cornell
A week after arriving at Cornell, displaced students from Tulane and Xavier universities settle in, learn the ropes and start to feel at home. (September 13, 2005)

Faculty task forces explore action plans for three strategic challenges
With more campus consultation ahead, three groups of distinguished faculty members have been working since early this year to develop action plans addressing three challenges offering opportunities for Cornell to establish leadership in areas of critical social importance: Life in the Age of the Genome, Wisdom in the Age of Digital Information and Sustainability in the Age of Development (September 13, 2005)

eCornell program trains higher ed leaders to manage organizational change
An online series of courses teaches higher education leaders how to manage Organization change. Designed by eCornell and Cornell Professor Samuel Bacharach, with material from the Institute for Community College Development at Cornell, it starts Sept. 21 through eCornell's online education program. (September 13, 2005)

Two faculty members added to presidential search committee
Professors Rosemary Avery and Richard Schuler have been added to the list of full members of the Presidential Search Committee. (September 12, 2005)

Iscol lecturer to talk about changing the world
Ken Grouf '93, founder and co-executive director of City Year New York, an Americorps program, will speak at Cornell University Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 4:30 p.m. in G73 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, about how young people can change the world. (September 12, 2005)

Making the power grid secure is focus of NSF project
Cornell University will be one of four institutions participating in the "Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid," a five-year National Science Foundation project to design, build and validate a secure cyberinfrastructure for the next-generation electric power grid. (September 12, 2005)

Emeritus Professor Raymond G. Thorpe dies Sept. 6
Raymond G. Thorpe, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, ended 39 years of teaching and advising at Cornell when he passed away Sept. 6 at his home in Cortland, after a short bout with cancer. He was 84, but still active in the school and community. (September 12, 2005)

Dean Koyanagi is Cornell's Sustainability Coordinator
Dean Koyanagi, HumEc '90, has been appointed Cornell University's first sustainability coordinator. (September 12, 2005)

Animal rights advocate, hug machine inventor is Rhodes Professor
Temple Grandin is one of the few experts on animal welfare who is categorically respected from those in the animal rights movement to government and corporate officials in industry and agriculture. She is a Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell University, and she will make her first visit to campus in February 2006. (September 12, 2005)

Issa Shivji, expert on law and development in Africa, to give two talks
Issa Shivji, director of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will speak Sept. 15 and 16 as guest scholar of Cornell University's Institute for African Development. (September 12, 2005)

Tulane students get the lowdown on all things Cornell
Displaced Tulane students came together for a whirlwind orientation meeting at Cornell Sept. 8, just a day and a half after most arrived in Ithaca after evacuating their New Orleans campus. (September 09, 2005)

Cornellians are raising funds for Hurricane Katrina relief
Across campus, members of the Cornell community are raising money to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Across the country, Cornell alumni are doing the same. (September 09, 2005)

CU's business incubator prepares for 2007 debut
Planners of Cornell University's Innovation Development and Economic Application (IDEA) Center, a business incubator to be housed in the Life Sciences Technology Building, have selected one company and are searching for a second to fine-tune the center's protocols. The center will aid in all aspects of forming companies to sell technologies developed at Cornell. (September 09, 2005)

Dudley appointed director of the Cornell Migrant Program
Mary Jo Dudley has been named director of the Cornell Migrant Program and a senior extension associate in the Department of Development Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell. (September 09, 2005)

Last call for CCA grant proposals for fall '05-spring '06
Got art? The Cornell Council for the Arts is seeking applications for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects that represent collaborative interests among different departments, units or faculty. (September 09, 2005)

Alumna pilots giant Navy chopper in Katrina rescue efforts
U.S. Navy Lt. Bibianna Danko '99, who flies one of the largest helicopters in the world, has been using her piloting skills to rescue victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She also served twice in the Persian Gulf and helped rescue tsunami victims. (September 08, 2005)

Cornell Web site will aid Gulf Coast recovery
A Web site being developed at Cornell University will give reconstruction workers and researchers access to detailed information on the status of critical infrastructure in communities along the Mississippi coast, based on data collected in the field and added to a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) database. (September 08, 2005)

Hunting dung in Cornell course in Africa
Assessing how a pride of lions eat a zebra and how horn lengths of antelopes may relate to why only some males have harems were just two of the many activities 16 students experienced working as field biologists in Kenya this summer in a new Cornell University course, Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior. (September 08, 2005)

Cornell offers new majors in grape growing and winemaking
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University is now offering new majors for undergraduate students in viticulture (grape growing) and enology (winemaking). The majors are in the Departments of Horticulture and Food Science, respectively. (September 08, 2005)

Cornell publishes new guide for organic farmers
"Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management," just released by Cornell University and available online, offers organic growers research-based information on how control insects and diseases. (September 08, 2005)

Michael P. Hoffmann named director of CUAES
Michael P. Hoffmann has been named director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, effective Sept. 1. (September 8, 2005)

1930s 'labor opera' opens Schwartz season
With singing, dancing and labor politics too controversial for the 1930s, "The Cradle Will Rock" will open the 2005-06 theater season at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Shows are Sept. 15-17 and 22-24 in Kiplinger Theatre. (September 08, 2005)

Cornell event highlights, Sept. 8-15

New technology park links tenants with Cornell ag, food research
A new research and development park affiliated with Cornell is seeking tenants interested in developing the next generation of food, agriculture and bio-based products. (September 08, 2005)

Cornell will celebrate the life of Hans Bethe, Sept. 18
Cornell University will hold a memorial event for Hans Bethe Sept. 18 at 2 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Speakers will include Cornell astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter, Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson and IBM physicist Richard Garwin. (September 07, 2005)

Cornell helps Louisiana animal rescue effort
Taking initiative to aid the animal rescue process, Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine has already sent supplies to Louisiana State University's School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge, which has been overwhelmed since the New Orleans flood. (September 07, 2005)

'Change to Win' is more likely to hurt than help labor, say ILR panelists
Three Cornell labor experts discussed the recent split between the AFL-CIO and breakaway unions SEIU, UNITE-HERE and others, as part of a Sept. 2 pre-Labor Day panel at the ILR School. (September 07, 2005)

The ideal dining experience? Not too fast, not too slow
Restaurant customers become dissatisfied if they think they are being rushed, but they also don't like waiting too long for service or the bill, a study from Cornell University's Center for Hospitality Research shows. (September 07, 2005)

Challenge Industries takes over CU hydroponics facility
Challenge Industries has begun operation of the state-of-the-art Cornell Hydroponics Facility, an 8,000-square-foot greenhouse using Cornell-developed technology to grow lettuce. (September 07, 2005)

Meet Diana Daniels, chair of the Presidential Search Committee
Diana Daniels is a fly-fishing soccer mom as well as vice chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees and general counsel and secretary of the Washington Post Co. (September 07, 2005)

Bassam Tibi speaks on modern Islam as A.D. White Professor
Bassam Tibi, director of the Center for International Affairs at the University of Gottingen, Germany, is an expert on modern Islam, Arab nationalism, democracy and religion, and the multifaceted challenges of globalization confronting both Islam and Europe. He is visiting campus as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. (September 7, 2005)

United Way campaign begins with 'Souper Day of Caring'
The annual Cornell United Way campaign prepares to kick off on campus in the coming weeks with a new goal of $625,000. (September 7, 2005)

Cornell Outdoor Education forms AIDS RIDE for Life team
More than 20 Cornell Outdoor Education students and staff have formed a team for the AIDS RIDE for Life '05, an annual 100-mile bicycle ride around Cayuga Lake to benefit HIV/AIDS services in Tompkins and Cortland counties. This year's ride is being held Saturday, Sept. 10. (September 06, 2005)

More than 200 Tulane students arrive on campus
For Tulane University students, classes were supposed to begin Aug. 31. Instead, many began classes at Cornell Sept. 6, after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding area and Cornell extended an offer to open its doors to Tulane students and faculty affected by the storm's damage and widespread flooding. (September 06, 2005)

Displaced Tulane students expected to arrive on campus Tuesday
Cornell administrators and staff are getting ready to welcome members of the Tulane community to campus. As many as 75 students are expected to spend the Labor Day weekend making their way to Ithaca and to arrive Tuesday, Sept. 6. (September 02, 2005)

Architect Peter Eisenman will lecture at Cornell Sept. 13
Internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman will speak on campus Sept. 13. His talk is the first in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning Dean's 2005-06 Lecture Series. (September 02, 2005)

Cornell offering assistance, support to hurricane victims
Cornell University community reaches out to members affected by Hurricane Katrina (September 01, 2005)

Cornell offers to admit Tulane students, faculty
Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings announced today the university's decision to open its doors to students and faculty of Tulane University, which was closed due to devastating damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina. (September 01, 2005)

Faculty wins demands for greater voice in choice of next president
As a direct result of a meeting of the Cornell University faculty with members of the Presidential Search Committee, two additional members of the faculty will be added as full members to the committee, Charles Walcott, dean of the faculty, has announced. (September 1, 2005)