The Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell, launched with a $10 million NSF grant, will apply computer science to problems in managing and allocating natural resources. (Sept. 3, 2008)
President David Skorton announced the naming of the Carolyn 'Biddy' Martin Room at Martin's farewell reception on Bailey Plaza, Sept. 2. (Sept. 3, 2008)
The Cornell Dance Program's second All-Years Dance Reunion, Aug. 29-31, kicked off the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' 20th season. (Sept. 3, 2008)
David Harris began his duties as interim provost Sept. 1, and his experience as deputy provost and vice provost for the social sciences has prepared him to hit the ground running during the search process. (Sept. 2, 2008)
The recently endowed Charles T. Stewart '40 Fund for the College of Arts and Sciences will support the college in perpetuity. The fund was established in honor of Stewart, who passed away in January. (Sept. 2, 2008)
At the event 'Educate the Vote: McCain v. Obama in 3D -- Data and Debate on Domestic Policy' Sept. 26, experts in health care, immigration and Social Security will analyze the candidates' proposals. (Sept. 2, 2008)
The French Studies Program presents a bilingual conference, 'Historiography, Theory, Literature: Franco-American Exchanges,' Sept. 11-13, which highlights a partnership with the Ecole normale superieure (ENS). (Sept. 2, 2008)
Vacancies remain for nonfaculty staff members in two of Cornell's Ithaca campus governance organizations, the Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 2, 2008)
With completion of construction on West Campus, the Hasbrouck apartment complex is back to housing only graduate students, families, visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows. (Sept. 2, 2008)
In the journal Nature, an international team of researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born. (Sept. 2, 2008)
Interim Provost David Harris, a scholar on race, ethnicity and public policy, is one of four Cornell social scientists leading a series of interactive seminars on inequality and socio-economic mobility. (Aug. 29, 2008)