Nominations for the 2006 Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professorship are now being sought from all from all members of the Cornell community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni and Cornell groups and organizations.
Across campus, members of the Cornell community are raising money to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Across the country, Cornell alumni are doing the same.
In a meeting with media Cornell president Hunter Rawlings announced that the university has decided to go ahead with its plan for the controversial West Campus Residential Initiative parking lot in the area dubbed Redbud Woods by protestors.
Mann Library is on the verge of selling its 100th Library in a Box, formally called The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. The equivalent of an entire room's worth of print journals all compressed onto CDs provides some 2.2 million pages of academic articles to 100 institutions in 50 developing countries, from Vietnam, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Senegal, Ethiopia and Malawi to Honduras, Bolivia and Peru.
Fred Rhoades has been driving buses – all kinds of buses, from school and senior citizens' buses to charter coaches – for more than 35 years. But according to Rhoades, the Prevost motor coaches that run eight times a week on Cornell's Campus-to-Campus express charter service beat them all – at least, based on comfort and passenger response from students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Bill Nye, TV's popular advocate for science education, returns to Cornell on April 3-12 in his role as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. He will deliver a public lecture April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.
On March 9, MBA students taking International Political Risk Management, a course taught by Elena Iankova, a lecturer at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, heard Fuad El-Hibri, chairman and CEO of Bioport's parent company, Emergent BioSolutions Inc., discuss the hurdles his firm faces in making and marketing its products abroad.
The Honorable Elena Poptodorova, the ambassador from the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States, is visiting the Cornell campus this week to deliver public lectures and meet with community members, university students, faculty members and administrators.
Save a place at the table for Frosty the Snowman if you live in Boonville, N.Y., or Caribou, Maine, this Thanksgiving. Otherwise, most of the Northeast should be generally snow-free during the holiday, according to Keith Eggleston.