The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell has issued information on where to go to find snow for Thanksgiving. Maine offers the best odds; avoid Baltimore and surrounding areas. (Nov. 17, 2010)
Colombia, which was ridden by drug trafficking and violence 10 years ago, is now a tourist destination with returning Peace Corps volunteers, said the former ambassador Nov. 15, talking on campus. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Gioia De Cari performed her one-woman-show on the plights of being a woman at MIT Nov. 11 and 12; a faculty panel followed each performance. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Chemistry's Hector Abruna was chosen to present the 2010 S.C. Lind Lectures by the American Chemical Society of East Tennessee. He is also the 2011 recipient of the Faraday Medal. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Philanthropist and retired businessman Fred Young '64, M.Eng. '66, MBA '66, has committed $11 million to CCAT, a proposed 25-meter aperture telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.
Despite the steps he took to try to avert it, the 2008 financial crisis was unstoppable, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in the 29th Hatfield Address, Nov. 11 in Bailey Hall. (Nov. 12, 2010)
