David Lifka, director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, has been named interim vice president for information technology and CIO to replace Ted Dodds, who will leave Cornell Dec. 6.
Events on campus include a Thanksgiving feast, an exhibition featuring supernatural beings in Asian cultures, a display of student public affairs projects and an opera composed by Patrick Braga ’17.
At a Cornell Silicon Valley presentation Nov. 11, college deans and others discussed ways to foster innovation between technology and the arts. The Johnson Museum will also create new courses.
A new Web portal for students with families aims to help them acclimate and integrate into the Cornell community and centralizes policies, resources and support structures that pertain to them.
CALS Student Services is using customer relationship management technologies for a wide range of academic processes to better anticipate and meet student needs.
LGBT activists Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton spoke on marginalization of people of color in a civil rights movement dominated by heterosexual men and the need for female leadership.
More than 125 students brainstormed, coded and met with community nonprofits as they sought solutions to problems as part of the Random Hacks of Kindness event Nov. 13-15 on campus.
Cornell faculty and staff will discuss student leadership development at a Dec. 8 symposium, "A New Wave of Leaders," launching Engaged Cornell's Leadership for the Greater Good initiative.
John Hale's study, “Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure at various grain sizes,” examines how the individual words of Lewis Carroll's famous tale come together to yield an understanding of each sentence.
