Provost Biddy Martin invites all faculty, staff and students to join the Cornell Humanities Book Art Project by lending books they have authored for an art installation by Professor Buzz Spector.
David J. Gross, the Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, will give three talks on 'The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality.'
Nicaraguans Salvador Stadthagen, ambassador to the United States, and Jose Luis Velazquez Pereira, ambassador to the Organization of American States,will speak about the significance of their country's forthcoming elections.
At a conference on the faculty of the future, faculty members, policy-makers and members of educational organizations said that more efforts are needed to reduce attrition rates in doctoral programs.
Two librarians from the University of California-Berkeley came to campus Oct. 5 to explain how their program helps redesign high-enrollment courses so more students will do research using the university's libraries.
At the 'New Frontiers' real estate conference Oct. 5, Michael Pralle, CEO of GE Real Estate, said his company has reaped big profits by turning to international and underserved real estate markets.
'The Humboldt Current,' written by Cornell history professor Aaron Sachs, is an intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science, particularly American environmentalism.
Federal funding for student aid, education and health programs will continue at fiscal year 2006 levels, at least until mid-November, because the U.S. Congress has recessed until Nov. 13 without resolving most of its important spending and policy decisions.
After graduating from Cornell, Debra Smith '03 went to Namibia, where she taught school in a village, coached a novice team of teenage girls to the national championship in volleyball and was a surgical assistant in an Angolan hospital.
Chad Walter has made it to victory lane twice in the Daytona 500 -- the Super Bowl of NASCAR -- not behind the wheel of a winning stock car but on the team that engineered it.
