Events this week include a concert by the Cornell Orchestras, a film screening and lecture with theoretical physicist David Kaplan, a fall harvest dinner on campus and a Science Cabaret on cider.
To make the Slope Day music and artist selection process more transparent, the Slope Day Programming Board will host an open forum for students, faculty and staff Monday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. in G-01 Uris Hall.
The inaugural class of the Cornell-Tsinghua MBA/FMBA program arrived at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Oct. 1. The 59 students are here for the first U.S. residential session.
Cornell University ranked No. 18 out of 800 institutions worldwide, up from up from No. 19 last year, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings published Sept. 30.
A gift from Rona and David Picket ’84 to the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English and its creative writing program frees MFA students to write during the summer.
Kathryn Pisco ’05, founder and CEO of Unearth the World, a social enterprise that promotes service-learning by pairing volunteers with international nonprofits, speaks on campus Oct. 2 at noon.
Eight faculty members from four colleges were honored recently with awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, allowing them to expand courses or add teaching assistants.
John McKain, assistant dean for communications at the College of Human Ecology, has been named associate vice president for university communications, effective Oct. 19.
To review current astrobiological knowledge and assess the prospects of life beyond Earth, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony Sept. 29 from Cornell’s Jonathan Lunine.
