Stephanie Owens, an artist, writer, curator and a visiting assistant professor of art in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), has been named director of the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA).
The Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management has joined the U.S.-Russia Business Council to facilitate interaction with Russian markets. (Sept. 8, 2011)
A team of Cornell administrators has been established to oversee the university's efforts to address faculty, staff and student concerns related to the university's obligations under Title IX. (Sept. 8, 2011)
Events this week include campus and community remembrances of Sept. 11; folk music and jazz concerts, a hip-hop documentary, and Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard' staged outdoors. (Sept. 8, 2011)
Dr. Laurie Glimcher, a leading physician-scientist and researcher, has been named Cornell's provost for medical affairs and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean at Weill Cornell Medical College effective Jan. 1, 2012. (Sept. 7, 2011)
Top Cornell and visiting academics take on the ramifications of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an open discussion Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m., Statler Hall Auditorium. (Sept. 7, 2011)
The Administrative Streamlining Program is hosting a series of informal brown-bag lunches, starting Sept. 12, to update the campus community on progress in the various initiatives. (Sept. 7, 2011)
The Cornell Onboarding Center provides a 'one-stop' service for new hires so they can activate their NetIDs, receive their photo IDs and otherwise complete the business of becoming a Cornell employee. (Sept. 7, 2011)
In her Aug. 30 College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture, Wellesley scholar Roxanne Euben said that dividing such rhetoric as 'Islam' and the 'West' is unproductive. (Sept. 7, 2011)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 7, 2011)
