Events this week include a reading by emeritus professor James McConkey, an exhibition on the Arctic and climate change, a critical dissection of values in the movies and a Cornell Glee Club concert.
Kirby Edmonds, a Dorothy Cotton Institute senior fellow, will present the keynote address at a luncheon, Jan. 20, at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School. Librada Paz, council member of the western New York for the Rural and Migrant Ministry, will give an afternoon keynote at Ithaca College.
KyuJung Whang, Cornell vice president for facilities, has been named to the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Senior extension associate Keith Tidball, an expert on disaster response and recovery, has been selected a 2014 visiting scholar by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has received the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America.
Scott E. Palmer, VMD, was named New York state’s equine medical director. He will also become an adjunct professor at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Jobs With Justice, a nonprofit workers’ advocacy organization, will donate archival materials from its 25-year history to the ILR School’s Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives.
