Cornell United Way co-chairs KyuJung Whang and Anne Kenney focus on the benefits that United Way-supported programs bring to the lives of local and Cornell community members.
Events on campus this week include an exhibit on early Cornell women scientists, the first Bound for Glory and Department of Music concerts of the season, the start of salsa lessons and a lecture on race and crime.
The Dump & Run sale held last weekend raised close to $55,000 to benefit local charities. A remaining amount of excess furniture from Balch Hall will go on sale Aug. 31, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at a warehouse on Warren Drive.
Students throughout the College of Human Ecology participate in summer research that deepens their understanding of various fields and sometimes causes them to re-evaluate their career paths.
Professor Matthew Evangelista, in giving one of the Cornell Context lectures for the 2013 New Student Reading Project, said that human rights violations, such as the Japanese-American internment in World War II, persist today.
Graduate students Daniel Cellucci, Nicholas Cheney, Brian Koopman, Ethan Ritz and Jason Yosinski are five of 65 graduate students whom have been chosen as Space Technology Research Fellows by the NASA.
Sheldon Brown ’68 and financial institutions CoBank and Farm Credit East have made a give to establish an agricultural economics professorship in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
