Jack and Meryl '81 Mann recently donated $100,000 to endow a pre-major advising fund in the Office of Admissions and Academic Advising at the College of Arts and Sciences. (Sept. 30, 2011)
Cornell University Library's Chats in the Stacks series of faculty talks about recently published work celebrates its 10th anniversary. (Sept. 30, 2011)
Jan Rock Zubrow, chair of the Executive Committee of the board of trustees and past co-chair of the campaign, talks about the campaign's successes. (Sept. 29, 2011)
Eight first-year students from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, are visiting Cornell Sept. 25-Oct. 6 as part of a leadership training program. (Sept. 29, 2011)
The past week was one of remembrance and continued resolve on the issue of gorge safety, with a Sept. 22 open forum and a Sept. 25 memorial service for Nathaniel Rand '12, who drowned July 2. (Sept. 29, 2011)
Cornell and the Honduran nonprofit Agua Para el Pueblo, founding members of the AguaClara network, will be honored as Intel Environment Tech Award laureates during The Tech Awards gala, Oct. 20. (Sept. 29, 2011)
Events on campus this week include a symposium on the latest cancer research, a gas drilling roundtable, a documentary on artist Anselm Kiefer, and gallery and garden talks at the Johnson Museum.
Faculty members can submit nominations for the Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large program through Nov. 15. Professors-at-Large are individuals of international distinction, appointed to six-year terms. (Sept. 28, 2011)
Josh Tetrick '04, founding CEO of 33needs, encouraged students to take action for the world, but he stressed that they didn't need to be martyrs. Work with companies that strive for social change, he said. (Sept. 28, 2011)
