The 12th annual Staff Education Exploration Day (S.E.E.D.) was held on July 21 in the Biotechnology Building. More than 200 staff attended the event to learn strategies for developing their careers. (July 23, 2010)
Developmental Review: Perceptions in Behavior and Cognition, a journal of developmental psychology, has been named one of the three most influential journals in its field. (July 21, 2010)
Stephen Nelson, Tariq Thachil, Karrie Koesel and Samatha Majic, all Ph.D. '09 in government, have earned top prizes for their dissertations from the American Political Science Association. (July 21, 2010)
Wayne Harbert, professor of linguistics and director of undergraduate studies for the department, translates Old English kennings about swords from firsthand experience with blacksmithing. (July 21, 2010)
Ping Wang, associate professor of entomology, has been named associate director of the Tang-Cornell China Scholars Program, which allows Chinese scholars to further their education at Cornell. (July 19, 2010)
Virtually all area residents who expressed an opinion during the open session of Ithaca's Common Council favor temporary fences on the East Hill bridges to help prevent suicides. (July 16, 2010)
New York state recently announced an Early Retirement Incentive program for certain participants in the New York State Employees' Retirement System or the State University of New York Optional Retirement Plan. (July 14, 2010)
Mariel Christie '10 of Clifton Park, N.Y., who graduated from Cornell this past May with a B.S. in biological sciences from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, died in Ithaca July 11.
