Gannett Health Services is opening its new addition, with a temporary main entrance on Campus Road. Services will be provided in the new facility while the original 60-year-old building undergoes renovation.
Faculty members Harold van Es, Carla Gomes and Joshua Woodard will present their innovative research at the intersection of computation, food and sustainability at the World Economic Forum June 26-28 in Tianjin, China.
Scientists will discuss ways to use computer power to solve problems in ecology and conservation at the Fourth International Conference on Computational Sustainability, July 6-8.
Kent Hubbell, B.Arch. '69, is returning to the architecture faculty after serving for 15 years as Cornell's dean of students, a tenure marked by his concern and support for students' well-being.
Professor Tapan Mitra has established annual prizes benefiting students in the Department of Economics with a $100,000 endowment, as a “concrete expression of my continuing attachment to this great institution of learning.”
Spanning six continents, 32 countries and 54 cities, more than 12,000 samples of DNA, RNA and microbes from surfaces in subways, buses, airports and other well-traveled public meeting spaces were collected June 21.
A faculty member since 1983, McLaughlin is senior associate director of the Dyson School. He will become Dyson's interim David J. Nolan Dean starting July 1, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced.
Thanks to a $25,000 library grant, 225 talks from the Cornell Lecture Tapes Collection - including talks by Jacques Derrida, Toni Morrison and Timothy Leary - have been digitized and are publicly available online.
