Janna Lamey has been named assistant dean of student life for the Graduate School, effective Oct. 8. She will develop activities and events in support of the graduate and professional student community. (Sept. 14, 2012)
Ben Wie '13, a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, supervised an animal behavior research team this past summer. The team looked at chemicals in mice brains. (Sept. 14, 2012)
HeiserFest, a symposium honoring Shoals Marine Lab's second director, J.B. Heiser, featured lectures by 16 colleagues whose careers he helped to shape. Presenters came from as far away as Australia. (Sept. 14, 2012)
Student leaders from more than 20 organizations convened Sept. 8 at a Leadership Roundtable, an initiative that brings student leaders together on a monthly basis to address issues of concern. (Sept. 13, 2012)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Frank DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been reappointed to a three-year term as director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future effective July 1. (Sept. 12, 2012)
Scott Emr has kept the institute focused on hypothesis-driven science that uses genetics, biochemistry, proteomics and bioinformatics to answer fundamental questions in cell biology. (Sept. 12, 2012)
U.S. News and World Report ranked Cornell first in the country among undergraduate engineering science/engineering physics programs. Cornell was also ranked No. 14 worldwide by QS. (Sept. 12, 2012)
At the Sept. 12 Faculty Senate meeting, Provost Kent Fuchs updated faculty on various university topics, including his acceptance of the revised academic calendar the senate had ratified in May.
