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)
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.
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
The Clare Boothe Luce Program, part of the Henry Luce Foundation, has awarded Cornell two two-year fellowships, including tuition and stipend, for women graduate students studying engineering.
