Six alumni and two faculty members of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were honored at a dinner Nov. 16 in the Statler Hotel. Nearly 230 alumni, faculty and staff of the college attended the banquet. (Nov. 26, 2007)
Michael Gerson, an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post who penned most of President George W. Bush's speeches from 2001 to 2006, talked about his years in the White House at the Cornell Club in New York City, Nov. 19. (Nov. 26, 2007)
Cornell's newest Marshall Scholar is Michael Barany, a College Scholar and senior mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences. (Nov. 21, 2007)
T. Michael Duncan, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was named New York state's Professor of the Year, an award that salutes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country. (Nov. 21, 2007)
Two Taiwanese lawyers who are training to become prosecutors will attend the Cornell Law School next fall for one academic year as part of the law school's first formal international program for prosecutors. (Nov. 21, 2007)
Ten members of Cornell's faculty and staff were elected honorary members of Sphinx Head, Cornell's oldest senior honorary society, for 'their unique contributions to undergraduate student life.' (Nov. 20, 2007)
The recent International Hotel/Motel and Restaurant Show and related Cornell events in New York City drew hundreds of alumni from the Hotel School. (Nov. 20, 2007)
Gale Buchanan, U.S. undersecretary for research, education and economics at the USDA, stressed the need to develop renewable, sustainable energy sources with new technologies during a talk at Cornell. (Nov. 20, 2007)
Brian Wansink, Cornell's John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, will take a leave of absence to serve as the executive director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion until January 2009. (Nov. 20, 2007)
Mann Library has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to make digital scientific data available to other academic and government repositories. (Nov. 20, 2007)
Two historically fierce rivals -- the Cornell and Boston University hockey teams -- face off at Madison Square Garden Nov. 24. The game will be broadcast online for a fee and via satellite. (Nov. 20, 2007)
