An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.
Events this week include a legal debate on voting rights, a Cornell astronomy-themed family night at the Museum of the Earth, a classic horror film in Sage Chapel and "Sweeney Todd" in Risley Theatre.
Cornell has extended its early decision admissions and financial aid deadline by one week, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8, in response to technical problems applicants have experienced with a new version of the Common Application.
ArcScan, which signed on as the newest tenant Oct. 15 at Cornell's Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development incubator, becomes the first company there whose medical device was developed at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Graduate student Ayuen Ajok recently told middle school students what it was like to be a Lost Boy of Sudan. He fled his village in 1987 and walked for thousands of miles, often without food or water.
Melissa Warden, a new hire in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, has received a $1.5 million grant to advance her research in novel neuroscience and translational stem cell research.
