Five fellows pursuing master's degrees in public administration recently spent a week in Uganda helping young mothers abused by soldiers led by fugitive rebel commander Joseph Kony.
Professors Dennis Miller and Martin Wiedmann will be among 22 people inducted into the International Academy of Food Science and Technology this August in Iguassu Falls, Brazil.
An exhibition running from June 7 to October on campus will feature an original Sputnik satellite, an Enigma WWII encoding/decoding machine and a Declaration of Independence facsimile.
Percy Allen II, MPA '75, shared his secrets for reviving money-losing hospitals with the Sloan Program in Health Administration May 5. Some keys: cheerleading and not cutting too close to the bone.
An experiment found that adding a colored potato chip in a tube of chips helped subjects eat fewer chips and accurately keep track of what they had eaten. (May 14, 2012)
Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol discussed the law and the rights of women on campus May 10 and also signed an MOU to renew a scholarship and exchange program.
An upcoming May 16 event will wed engineering and sustainability, as Cornell hosts a regional symposium of the National Academy of Engineering. (May 14, 2012)
Events on campus this week include concerts in Barnes Hall, migratory birds, Mother's Day breakfast, sustainability symposium, making yogurt, child safety seat checks, and a garden fair and plant sale.
