Carolyn Klass, a senior extension associate in entomology at Cornell University was honored by the New York State Nursery and Landscape Association with their 2005 Gold Medal of Horticulture.
With more campus consultation ahead, three groups of distinguished faculty members have been working since early this year to develop action plans addressing three challenges offering opportunities for Cornell to establish leadership.
An online series of courses teaches higher education leaders how to manage Organization change. Designed by eCornell and Cornell Professor Samuel Bacharach.
Ken Grouf '93, founder and co-executive director of City Year New York, an Americorps program, will speak at Cornell about how young people can change the world.
Cornell will be one of four institutions participating in the "Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid," a five-year National Science Foundation project to design.
Temple Grandin is one of the few experts on animal welfare and is a Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, and she will make her first visit to campus in February 2006.
Issa Shivji, director of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will speak Sept. 15 and 16.
Displaced Tulane students came together for a whirlwind orientation meeting at Cornell Sept. 8, just a day and a half after most arrived in Ithaca after evacuating their New Orleans campus.
