Organized by Modesto Quiroga, Cornell’s Cosmopolitan Club first met Nov. 10, 1904, in Barnes Hall, with 60 students attending. For the next five decades, the Cosmopolitan Club fostered international awareness and elevated peaceful thoughts.
Professor Emeritus Tony Ingraffea explained a statewide green energy plan in his keynote address at the President’s Sustainable Campus Committee annual summit Nov. 18, and winners of the Cornell University Partners in Sustainability Award were announced.
At a Nov. 13 campus event, Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professor of English, led a discussion about what men can do to change the culture of sexual assault and how students can pressure schools to make them safe.
Harry C. Katz, dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 2005-14, was appointed Cornell’s interim provost effective Nov. 14. He spoke with the Chronicle Nov. 17 about his new position.
Thomas C. Reed ’56, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, spoke at Cornell Air Force ROTC Detachment 520's annual Dining Out event in Ithaca Nov. 14.
The polymer, called polypropylene carbonate, is made using a class of catalysts that was invented in the lab of Geoffrey Coates, and further developed by the Cornell spinoff company Novomer.
The university has launched searches for a new provost and vice president for student and campus life, with the formation of search committees and the selection of search firms. It is expected that the positions will be filled by next fall.
