Cornell professor Laurent Dubreuil will investigate non-standard logic and the cognitive study of language with the help of a $274,000 Mellon New Directions Fellowship. (April 2, 2009)
Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. (April 2, 2009)
A team of Cornell students has designed a line of menswear clothing from fabric donated by Pendleton Woolen Mills. They are hoping Pendleton will integrate the 12 garment styles into its designs.
Anne-Lise Cossart '09 and Liz Bageant '10, with a grant from the Public Service Center, are collecting used bicycles to ship to Ghana. They hope to have 500 bikes by April 4, when the bikes leave Ithaca. (April 1, 2009)
Alan B. Krueger has been nominated as assistant secretary for economic policy in the U.S. Treasury Department, and Seth D. Harris has been nominated as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. (April 1, 2009)
Cornell will sponsor the free and open workshop, Parents Apart: Parents Helping Children Cope with Separation and Divorce, April 2, noon-1 p.m., in 340 Duffield Hall. (April 1, 2009)
Ralph D. Christy, professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, has been named the new director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development. (March 30, 2009)
From Sage Hall March 26, President David Skorton hosted a webcast 'town hall meeting' with nine of the university's most active alumni in the first of what is expected to be many such conversations. (March 30, 2009)
