In a new venture in Africa, Cornell will support a new doctoral program at the University of Ghana to train African plant breeders to tackle issues related to crops vital to Africans' diet. (Sept. 19, 2007)
Researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have found evidence that the 'drying up' of Australia over the past 20 million years triggered an explosive diversification of skinks. (Sept. 19, 2007)
Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced a new task force to address the problem of employee misclassification. The announcement referenced an ILR study, 'The Cost of Worker Misclassification in New York State.' (Sept. 18, 2007)
To give the community an overview of its draft Comprehensive Master Plan and an opportunity to provide feedback, Cornell will hold two open houses, Sept. 26, one on campus and one in downtown Ithaca. (Sept. 18, 2007)
At the first Cornell Conference on International Development, held Sept. 15-16, a panel discussed opportunities, inequalities, women's rights and more. About 160 alumni and dozens of students and faculty attended. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Cornell's ILR School will co-sponsor a conference, 'The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level,' at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 27-28. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Ithaca's official sister city, Elios Proni, Greece, will play host in October to 10 travelers from Ithaca, who will attempt to bring a taste of their twin city back home to share.
Twenty-three Society for the Humanities fellows will focus their scholarly and artistic talents on the theme of improvisation this academic year. Jerrold Levinson will visit Sept. 26-28, and Rustom Bharucha, Oct. 5-19. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Insect cyborgs and new materials for solar panels were among the 71 undergraduate, graduate student and postdoctoral projects spotlighted at the 2007 Engineering Research Showcase, Sept. 11. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Mosaic@Atlanta, a conference of Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic and Native American Cornell alumni, faculty, students and staff, will take place Sept. 28 in Atlanta. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Cornell University Finance and Administration celebrated its three-month-old administrative restructuring with an event in Bartels Hall, Sept. 17. (Sept. 18, 2007)
