Faculty, staff, students, alumni and Cornell groups are invited to submit nominations for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professorship. Nomination deadline is Oct. 15. (Sept. 24, 2008)
On Sept. 19, Cornell's chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects transformed a metered parking space on College Avenue into a mini park for the day to observe National Park(ing) Day. (Sept. 24, 2008)
Cornell is the best place in the nation to work for people over age 50, according to AARP, because of its commitment to staff and faculty, more than 40 percent of whom are age 50 or older. (Sept. 23, 2008)
John Ochsendorf '96, an MIT associate professor, and stage lighting designer Jennifer Tipton '58 have each won $500,000, no-strings-attached fellowships from the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation. (Sept. 23, 2008)
A Cornell scientist has helped describe for the first time how certain male-killing bacteria manage to specifically kill off males of a parasitic wasp: They first invade the mother. (Sept. 23, 2008)
The standard model for teaching introductory science - with lectures given to a hall full of silent students, homework assigned from the back of a textbook and exams - is failing, said Wieman. (Sept. 23, 2008)
'Islam is free from anti-Semitism,' said scholar Bassam Tibi, Sept. 22, at a campus colloquium. He argued that Islamism, and not Islam, is responsible for anti-Semitic and anti-American viewpoints. (Sept. 23, 2008)
Architecture critic Robert Campbell lectured Sept. 12 in honor of Roger Trancik's retirement after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning and landscape architecture. (Sept. 23, 2008)
More than 100 people celebrated the culture from the land of Rumi, the 13th-century Muslim and Turkish scholar and poet who preached peace and tolerance, Sept. 18 at a Cornell Rumi Society event. (Sept. 23, 2008)
Nevin D. 'Ned' Harkness, the first coach to win national championships in two different sports, died Sept. 19 at the age of 89. A memorial service is being planned for 11 a.m. on Oct. 11 in Glens Falls, N.Y. (Sept. 19, 2008)
Historian Garry Wills, author of 2008 New Student Reading Project selection 'Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America,' gave a lecture Sept. 17 on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. (Sept. 19, 2008)
More than 10,000 pounds of food and personal care items were collected during the Sept. 11 Stephen E. Garner Day of Caring, sponsored by the United Way of Tompkins County. (Sept. 19, 2008)
