TCAT to replace East Hill Shuttle with Route 82

The East Hill Shuttle service will be replaced with TCAT Route 82 as of Jan. 17. The schedule will be changed to better accommodate Cornell staff members who need to attend meetings on campus. (Dec. 8, 2010)

Emeritus professor to speak at international symposium

Michael Latham, M.D., professor emeritus, will deliver the keynote address Dec. 7 on nutritional security through community agriculture in developing countries at FAO international symposium in Rome. (Dec. 6, 2010)

Terzian honored for excellence in teaching

Astronomy professor Yervant Terzian received the Summum Bonum award for teaching excellence from Crestron Electronics Inc. in a ceremony in the Space Sciences Building Dec. 3.

U.S. must take lead in eliminating nuclear weapons and avoid becoming 'a pitiful, helpless giant'

Geo-economics, not military might, is the main tool of international negotiations, said Richard Burt '69, former ambassador to Germany, as failing states seek nuclear weapons. (Dec. 6, 2010)

Parrish is new head of Baker Institute, Feline Health Center

Colin Parrish, the John M. Olin Professor of Virology, is the new director of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's Baker Institute for Animal Health and the Feline Health Center.

Body of alumna recovered from park

The body of recent alumna Tine Rubow was recovered from the creek at Taughannock Falls State Park in the afternoon of Dec. 2. New York State Park Police are investigating. (Dec. 3, 2010)

Michal Lipson receives Blavatnik Award

Michal Lipson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a 2010 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. (Dec. 2, 2010)

Arts and Sciences to recruit faculty for three new endowed humanities professorships

Gifts totaling $12 million will establish three endowed senior professorships in the humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, with support from an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation challenge grant. (Dec. 1, 2010)

Robert Summers, pre-eminent legal scholar and beloved teacher, says goodbye

After what he calls 'a thousand years' of learning, teaching and writing, Cornell Law School luminary Robert S. Summers taught his last class Dec. 1. (Dec. 1, 2010)