In the fourth of six public discussions, Provost Kent Fuchs and task force chair Ron Seeber noted that the focus of the management sciences report is largely conceptual.
A handful of faculty attended the informal Dec. 3 brown-bag lunch hosted by Provost Kent Fuchs to discuss the findings of the life sciences task force.
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
A panel of experts in geology, energy, groundwater and public policy educated the Cornell community about the broad range of competing energy and environmental issues surrounding the drilling controversy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Social science departments are too diffuse for the university to excel in the discipline and should strategically merges some units, according to task force findings discussed Dec. 1.
The rally, organized by Kyoto Now!, sought to raise awareness about water contamination from hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from the earth. (Dec. 2, 2009)
The Presidential Life Sciences Fellowships program is intended to help form integrative new disciplines within the life sciences and to expand and support students' interdisciplinary interests. (Dec. 1, 2009)
A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity. (Dec. 1, 2009)
Cornell Cooperative Extension is on the front lines of educating citizens and communities about natural gas drilling into the Marcellus Shale. (Nov. 30, 2009)
