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Things to do: Week of Oct. 10

Editors' picks for events the week of Oct. 10 range from a tour of the Sagan Planet Walk with Bill Nye to a symposium on wildlife conservation research to an after-hours event for students at the Johnson Museum. (Oct. 9, 2008)

Meet the Candidate: Don Barber

Don Barber, a Democrat running for New York State Senate, visited with Cornell officials Oct. 1 to share his views on issues ranging from health insurance to higher education. (Oct. 9, 2008)

Wall Street Journal ranks Johnson School Executive MBA program No. 7

Published in the Sept. 30 issue, the report on the top 25 best executive MBA programs was based on surveys of thousands of students and hundreds of companies. (Oct. 9, 2008)

High-performance data analysis training offered

The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing will present a two-day training class Oct. 23-24 on performing data analyses on the 'Ranger' supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. (Oct. 9, 2008)

Paz-Soldan 'shocked' to discover he's a top-50 intellectual

Novelist, literary scholar and Cornell professor Edmundo Paz-Soldan was named to a list of the 50 most influential Latin intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Harvard prof: America is ready for change with presidential election

Harvard's Charles Ogletree delivered the Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on 'The Combustible Mixture of Race, Gender, Religion and Politics: Lessons Learned From the 2008 Political Campaign,' Oct. 7 at the ILR School. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Astronomy, art and music, old and new, create a conductor's 'dream scenario'

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra will premiere 'Anillos,' by Cornell composer Roberto Sierra, Oct. 11 in Bailey Hall, as part of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences annual meeting. (Oct. 8, 2008)

CU hosts astronomers from around the world

More than 800 astronomers from around the world will descend on Ithaca Oct. 10-15 for the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Help create WikiCandidate -- the ideal presidential contender

A group of Cornellians has created a Web site where the public can create the history and platform of an ideal candidate: Senator DeWiki. The researchers are studying civic participation. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Carole Boyce Davies receives book award

Africana and English faculty member Carol Boyce Davies has received an award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her historical biography of radical intellectual Claudia Jones. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Science and Technology Studies: From effects of iPods to what happens when humans reshape rivers

STS researchers 'want to understand how science and technology as forms of knowledge are produced; how their credibility is tested; how they change over time,' explains department chair Stephen Hilgartner. (Oct. 8, 2008)

The last word on economics

Larry Blume, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and professor of information science, has co-edited a 7,680-page, eight-volume work, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed. (Oct. 8, 2008)