Isaac Kramnick, a 30-year Cornell University faculty member who serves as the Richard J. Schwartz Professor and chair of the Department of Government, has been named vice provost for undergraduate education. Announcing the appointment, effective July 1.
The Thurston Avenue bridge spanning Fall Creek at the edge of Beebe Lake and the western end of Forest Home Drive on the Cornell University campus will be closed from 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 13, so that NYSEG can repair a leaking gas main.
Due to recently determined structural problems, Cornell University officials announced today that all occupants of the university's Martha Van Rensselaer North building will be relocated to temporary offices in other buildings. The north wing will not be occupied after July 13.
Two Cornell University graduate students have received generous graduate fellowships from the Semiconductor Research Corp., the microchip industry's long-term research consortium.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell University's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services. The five-year appointment is effective July 1.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 21. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, E. 44th St.
Russia is teetering on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the same virulent, fungal-like pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, more commonly called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced May 24 the reappointment of Franklin W. Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The appointment, which is for five years beginning July 1.
