ITHACA, N.Y. -- Michael Lynn worked his way through college hustling for tips as a waiter, then turned the study of tipping into an academic career. This latest study finds that while tips are rewards for services rendered, there remains an element of unpredictability, even mystery, about tipping that makes it an unreliable measure of server performance.
Cornell announced today that Daniel Usner, a highly regarded historian of American Indian-Colonial relations, will succeed Jane Mt. Pleasant as the director of the University's American Indian Program.
Things to Do for the week of Jan. 30 include a concert of Brazilian music, a lecture on the closing of Gitmo and a lecture on galactic luminosity. (Jan. 30, 2009)
Visiting artist Diana Cooper challenged her Drawing III class last semester to turn the expectation of guidance on its head and produce 'Maps to Get Lost By.' (Feb. 1, 2007)
Most people are better judges of other people's moral character than they are of their own. Experiments conducted at Cornell and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found many people making an error in self-assessment.
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany St., on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The program is free and open to all. This ninth annual event will begin with a luncheon, a keynote speech and performances by local choirs. The keynote speaker this year is Larry Shinagawa, associate professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Workshops will follow the luncheon, including children's workshops presented by Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and GIAC, storytelling by Jacqueline Scott and a music workshop by Tom Sieling. In addition, there will be a joint Elder-Youth Speakout this year and a workshop by Leslie Schultz and Tammy Baker, titled "Alternatives to Violence." The program will conclude with dessert and additional performances by local choirs. (January 13, 2003)
Children in foster care who qualify for adoption subsidies are twice as likely to get adopted as children who do not qualify for subsidies, according to a Cornell University study.
G. Peter Lepage, professor of physics, has been reappointed to a five-year term as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning July 1, 2009. (May 28, 2008)