Events on campus this week include ticket sales for Margaret Atwood lecture, change in Bound for Glory, the Perkins Prize, a celebration of the baroque organ and a symposium on the Nano.
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
A project of Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise aims to make it easier for developing nations to manage sustainable tourism. (March 2, 2011)
David Yearsley, professor of music, will reprise some of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonatas March 8 to kick off an inaugural celebration of the new $2 million baroque pipe organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel. (March 2, 2011)
Gordon Franklin Streib, professor emeritus of sociology and an internationally known scholar of retirement housing who taught at Cornell, died Feb. 17 at the age of 92. (March 2, 2011)
Arrangements have been made to celebrate the life of George Desdunes, including a campus service March 2 in Sage Chapel. Also, a bus has been arranged to transport students to the wake March 3 in Brooklyn. (March 1, 2011)
As the investigation into the death of George Desdunes continues, CU officials have imposed an interim suspension of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, saying it is likely the university's alcohol policy had been violated. (March 1, 2011)
Editing our own Facebook walls appears to boost self-esteem in college students, finds a new Cornell study by social media researchers. (March 1, 2011)
The new student docent program at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art trains about a dozen students a year to give tours. Students recruit and schedule their own groups. (March 1, 2011)
Professor emeritus of art Zevi Blum, B.Arch. '57, an artist who taught drawing in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning for more than 30 years, died Feb. 25 in San Francisco. He was 77. (March 1, 2011)
