Peter Wolczanski, the George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor of Chemistry, has received the 2011 National Award in organometallic chemistry from the American Chemical Society. (Sept. 27, 2010)
Glenn Altschuler presented the first talk in the Jewish Studies lecture series Sept. 21 with a lecture on rappers, anti-Semitism and racism. (Sept. 23, 2010)
Scholars, artists and graduate students are engaging in collaborative initiatives in the digital humanities, with support from Cornell's Society for the Humanities. (Sept. 23, 2010)
The President's Council of Cornell Women's Affinito-Stewart Grants Program has awarded research grants to seven assistant professors to help them complete research important in their tenure process.
A Sept. 21 visit to campus by Richard Kessel, president and CEO of the New York Power Authority, was highlighted by a discussion about state and local efforts toward sustainability. (Sept. 22, 2010)
Research fellow Nimat Hafez Barazangi said Muslim women can use the Quran to build a stronger identity for themselves in Muslim societies at a talk at Cornell Sept. 16. (Sept. 22, 2010)
The Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences has awarded five grants, from creating an online collection of Cornell's plaster casts to digitizing 25,000 pages of Nepali texts.
A conference Sept. 11-12 at Cornell brought together scholars to examine how psychologists and philosophers can learn from one another. (Sept. 21, 2010)