A new manual, co-authored by Cornell social gerontologist Karl Pillemer, focuses on how to help nurse supervisors in long-term care facilities improve their leadership and supervisory skills.
The French Studies Program at Cornell is launching its first annual French Festival on campus from Nov. 5 through Nov. 23. Called La Quinzaine, which means fortnight, the festival will include two weeks of lectures, movies, round table discussions, films, recitations, culinary events and concerts.
Two of 60 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, announced last week by the White House, will go to Cornell faculty members: Linda K. Nozick, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and Patrick J. Stover, assistant professor of nutritional biochemistry.
On Nov. 1, the InterFraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at Cornell will host a Public Service Day.
Documents, scientific specimens, works of art and other materials previously available only to a few scholars will be made available worldwide through a new digital imaging program at Cornell. The Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, funded by $2 million in private grants.
Cornell students, including members of fraternity and sorority councils, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Nov. 1. Activities include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility poles, and open spaces.
International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal -- the first U.S. book dealing exclusively with cross-border deals -- is set to be published by John Wiley & Sons on Nov. 28.
Cornell announced today the endowment of a $50,000 fellowship, the IBM University Partnership Award, to support outstanding students of computer and computational science at Cornell. The fellowship, which will begin in Fall 1998, will be administered through the Cornell Theory Center.
