Cornell University has made substantial progress in its multi-year faculty improvement plan, with salaries for continuing faculty increasing 8.1 percent in 2001-02, compared with the university's overall goal of 8 percent, President Hunter Rawlings announced.
The Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute has been named the Best Law School Site by legal.online, a national Internet newsletter, in its Best of the Web awards.
U.S. corporations concerned with the high cost and delays of litigation are turning to alternative dispute resolution as a way to resolve various business-related disputes, including employment, environment, workers’ compensation, sexual harassment, securities fraud and age discrimination.
In its second year of participation in the Morris K. Udall Scholarship competition, Cornell University has produced three undergraduate winners of the prestigious awards for the 1999-2000 academic year.
Should hospitals be allowed to sell your blood to researchers? Should researchers be permitted to patent your genes without your consent? Those are among the compelling questions Lori B. Andrews will address Wednesday, April 10, when she delivers the second annual Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture at Cornell University Law School. The talk will be at 4 p.m. in the Stein Mancuso Amphitheater in Myron Taylor Hall on Cornell's campus. Admission is free and open to the general public. (April 2, 2002)
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.
Cornell will maintain its support for a program undertaken by member universities of the Fair Labor Association to involve locally-based organizations in monitoring working conditions in apparel factories in third-world countries. In making the announcement, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets may trigger a quick weight loss, but it's only temporary and largely due to water loss, not body fat. Such a diet on a long-term basis also would probably promote chronic diseases.
In his State of the University address, President David Skorton announced an increase of $125 million to the scholarship campaign goal. He also named the new provost and announced a $50 million gift from the Tata Trust. (Oct. 17, 2008)
Experts from around the nation will gather at a Cornell University conference May 22 to explore how historical perspectives, current trends and public policies shape and affect United States farm labor and rural communities.