President Barack Obama has appointed Linda Nozick, professor of civil and environmental engineering, to serve as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. (Aug. 17, 2011)
On Oct. 8, Cornell veterinary students will join volunteer alumni to offer their first daylong animal wellness clinic in the Bronx. Organizers hope it will become a regular event.
Adam Seth Levine '03, assistant professor government, will receive the 2011 E.E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association. (Aug. 17, 2011)
Shengyi Iris Sun, a second-year graduate student in the field of biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, has been awarded a three-year fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (Aug. 17, 2011)
Kathryn Boor, Cornell's Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has won an international award for her research on dairy microbiology and food safety. (Aug. 16, 2011)
The professor of mathematics was named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics during an Aug. 1 induction ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings/IMS Annual Meeting in Miami. (Aug. 16, 2011)
Alexander Kazimirov, a senior research associate, died of a heart attack Aug. 12 while hiking Algonquin Mountain in the Adirondacks. He was 59. (Aug. 16, 2011)
Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Margaret McFall-Ngai, a biologist and ecologist, will enliven Cornell's intellectual and cultural life as newly appointed A.D. White Professors-at-Large. (Aug. 15, 2011)
