Ping Wang, associate professor of entomology, has been named associate director of the Tang-Cornell China Scholars Program, which allows Chinese scholars to further their education at Cornell. (July 19, 2010)
Virtually all area residents who expressed an opinion during the open session of Ithaca's Common Council favor temporary fences on the East Hill bridges to help prevent suicides. (July 16, 2010)
New York state recently announced an Early Retirement Incentive program for certain participants in the New York State Employees' Retirement System or the State University of New York Optional Retirement Plan. (July 14, 2010)
Mariel Christie '10 of Clifton Park, N.Y., who graduated from Cornell this past May with a B.S. in biological sciences from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, died in Ithaca July 11.
Two Cornell graduate students have won awards that total $250,000 - one for instant, accurate testing of sore throats and another for a portable, low-power ultrasound device that promotes healing. (July 12, 2010)
Cornell will welcome webmasters, computer security officers and university attorneys to the fifteenth annual Cornell University/EDUCAUSE Institute for Computer Policy and Law at the Statler Hotel. (July 12, 2010)
Robert M. Palmer, professor emeritus of composition and founder of the Doctor of Musical Arts program in composition at Cornell, died July 3 at the age of 95. (July 8, 2010)
Staff Education Exploration Day (S.E.E.D.), July 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., G10 Biotech, features new workshops designed to help Cornell employees advance in their careers as well as many exhibits.
