Assistant professor of music Joseph Lin has been selected to join the Juilliard String Quartet as first violinist. He also will join the Juilliard School of Music faculty in fall 2011. (Oct. 26, 2010)
Entertainment lawyer Alan Schwartz '55, who has represented Tennessee Williams and Mel Brooks, shared stories from the world of entertainment and intellectual property law Oct. 22. (Oct. 25, 2010)
New York Times business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin '99 recounted how he got his start with the renowned newspaper at age 18 and some back story about the 2008 financial crisis in an Oct. 20 talk. (Oct. 25, 2010)
Professor Patrick Stover will serve as an associate editor of a new American Society for Nutrition journal called Advances in Nutrition. (Oct. 21, 2010)
Cornell is taking the next steps in its streamlining process to rethink its administrative services. A new website and upcoming forums will provide updates on progress.
Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D. '86 and his wife have won a $1 million prize from the Jacobs Foundation for their work on the interplay between genes and environment in determining proclivity toward violence. (Oct. 21, 2010)
For the 30th anniversary of the Knight Scholars program, Cornell hosted an Oct. 19 luncheon in honor of the late Lester Knight's son, Chuck Knight '57.
After no health plan rate increases in 2010, the endowed health plan premium will increase 6 percent in 2011, below the national average for increases. Enrollment period begins Nov. 1. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Medicinal biochemist Eloy Rodriguez, who hails from a poor Chicano Texan town and is now a Cornell professor, stressed the need for more Latino scientists as a speaker at the National Institutes of Health. (Oct. 20, 2010)
