Bartels awards, scholarships for outstanding custodians

Participants in parenting
survey sought
Nebi Sumer, visiting professor, Cindy Hazan,
associate professor, and Emre Selcuk,
graduate student, all in the Department of
Human Development, are conducting an
online research study about child-rearing
behaviors and parenting. Women who have a
child between the ages of 8-13 are eligible to
participate in this study.
Participants will be asked for brief demographic
information, their parenting behaviors
and their close relationships. Completing all
the questions takes about 25-30 minutes.
Responses will be confi dential and anonymous.
You will not be asked to report any names in the
questionnaire. Upon completion of the study,
you will be eligible for a lottery for two $100 gift
certifi cates to the store of your choice.
The survey can be found at: https://cornell.qual
trics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dprQBWMJZhC3pU8
Feel free to contact Sumer directly with any
questions at ns454@cornell.edu or call 607-
255-8291.
PAWPRINT PICKS
Visit events.cornell.edu/
ANIMAL FEEDINGS
Every Saturday noon, participants can view the
Cayuga Nature Center’s snakes, turtles, birds,
fi sh and mammals. Included with regular admission:
$3 per adult (18-54); $2, seniors (55+) and
students (ages 12-17 and college students with a
valid student ID); $1 for children (ages 2-11); free to
members and children under 2 years old.
HOLIDAY SALE AT CORNELL PLANTATIONS
Show your Cornell ID at the Brian C. Nevin
Welcome Center and receive 25 percent off*
your total purchase. Sale runs through Dec. 21.
Unique gift items, Cornell Plantations signature
products, books, and poinsettias and wreaths
from the greenhouse. (*Discount excluded from
artwork and Cornell sheep blankets).
PLANTS OF THE E WINTER SOLSTICE SOLSTIC
Discover the cultural and natural histo history of such
plants lants as oak, holly, ivy, mistletoe mistletoe and evergreens ev
while celebrating the fi rst day of winter, winte Dec. 22,
3:30-6 :30-6 p.m., in the Mullestein Winter Garden,
Cornell ornell Plantations. Tour, solstice ceremony cerem and
traditional raditional Wassailing. Make a simple
boxwood
wreath to take home. Refreshment
Refreshments and all
materials provided. Pre-registration Pre-registration required. re
TRINKETS T AND ND N TREASURES
A special family program on trinkets and treasures
ures runs Dec. 26, 28 and 30, at the Museum
of f the Earth, and Dec. 27 and 29 at th the Cayuga
Nature Center, both places 11 a.m.-noon. a.m.-noon Included
with regular admission. Free for mem
members.
To submit events for Pawprint, visit www.
pawprint.cornell.edu. Please submit listing
two weeks prior to event.
Add holiday travel scams
to your naughty list
SHALEY DEGIORGIO
If you’re planning to travel for the holidays,
you aren’t alone and scammers know it.
Criminals only need to book travel once to
get a copy of everything a legitimate airline
might email someone; then it’s only a matter
of creating a duplicate email with one or more
naughty links, and spamming you until you let
your guard down.
Susan A. Henry, Ph.D., professor for the department
of Molecular Biology and Genetics, knows
all too well how sneaky a fake e-ticket spam
campaign can be. She received two phony
travel documents in the past few weeks, both
within days of booking tickets online. “The fi rst
one involved a Delta fl ight booked by Cornell
travel on a Cornell account,” Henry explains.
“One of the research associates in my lab was
also the recipient, a few weeks ago, of a phony
Delta receipt for a trip he booked on his own
credit card using his Cornell email.”
It’s the perfect storm, really. Our Cornell email
addresses are listed in the Cornell directory
(cornell.edu/search), along with our names and
job titles. That, coupled with the likelihood that
many of us are traveling during the season,
and the fact that there are only so many major
airlines that we might be traveling with, means
scammers who do their homework have a
good chance they’ll hook someone.
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Our best advice? Be increasingly vigilant to
avoid opening attachments and not follow
links in unsolicited emails.
Scams used to depend on you clicking a link
to go somewhere and entering your credit
card number. Some scams still work that way,
but most people get red fl ags going off in their
head when they land on a page that says,
“confi rm this with your credit card number,” so
scammers have gotten smarter.
Nowadays, all you need to do is just click
once, and you may very well be downloading
the malware that will start snooping on your
computer. It won’t just tell the scammer your
credit card number; it will tell them everything
you type. Everything – your name, birthdate,
bank info and research – all of it. Whenever
your computer is connected to the Internet, it
is under constant attack by criminals seeking
to exploit your holiday spirit to steal information,
send spam emails, distribute illicit material
or attack other computers.
Wondering how else criminals try to trick you
during the holidays? See “Criminals bank on
the season of giving” (http://www.it.cornell.
edu/security/featured.cfm?id=127350). To
learn how you can protect yourself, see the
Internet Safety section of Cornell’s IT Security
web site (http://www.it.cornell.edu/security/
safety/index.cfm).
Cornell United Way calls for pledges before year-end
The 2011 United Way campaign is entering its fi nal phase.
This year 42 local agencies will receive United Way support, providing aid to Tompkins County
residents who need food, shelter or one of the many services supported by United Way gifts.
Just a dollar a paycheck will buy an hour of home health aide services or fi ve days of meals on
wheels for one person.
Those who contribute to United Way can direct their gifts to certain organizations, preclude
certain organizations, or allow United Way to apply the funds
where they are most needed. They can also direct their funds to
the United Way in other counties.
The Cornell community is the single largest contributor to the
United Way of Tompkins County Community Campaign, contributing
approximately 40 percent of total gifts. All of these individual
gifts go directly to support services and programs meeting critical
community needs. Visit www.cornell.edu/unitedway/ to learn
more.
Staff, faculty and students received donation forms in campus
mail in late September. For another form or to make a pledge,
go to the Cornell United Way web site above or call your unit’s
campaign ambassador. You can also donate online.