Kelly Musick named Cornell Population Center director

Kelly Musick, associate professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, has been appointed to a five-year term as director of the Cornell Population Center.

Bartels World Affairs Fellow Alan Blinder lectures April 19

Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will lecture on “The Evolving Political Economy of Central Banking” April 19.

Future Ph.D.s inducted into McNair Scholars Program

The McNair Scholars Program, designed to increase the attainment of Ph.D.s among first generation, low-income and underrepresented students, inducted 16 undergraduates April 9.

Ithaca, Pittsford score in high school programming contest

Two teams from Ithaca High School took first and third place in Cornell's annual high School Programming Contest, which drew 19 teams from acrosss the state.

Renowned physicist to examine nature's moral code

Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will speak on “The Morality of Fundamental Physics” April 21 in a public lecture as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at 7 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

Students explore criminal justice through new minor

The new interdisciplinary Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice minor in the College of Arts and Sciences offers students an engaged learning experience through the Cornell Prison Education Program.

An insider's view of post-Fukushima nuclear energy

Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will lecture on nuclear energy post-Fukushima on campus April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall.

Primate evolution moves into the fast lane

Researchers at Cornell and Bar-Ilan Universities have uncovered a new mechanism for mutation in primates that is rare but rapid, site-specific and aggressive.

Argentina National Academy of Sciences inducts Suzanne Kay

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, professor of geological sciences, now shares a prestigious honor with Charles Darwin - a formal induction into the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina.