More than 100 events, including receptions, speeches, presentations, entertainment and outdoor activities, will greet new first-year and transfer students during Orientation Week, Aug. 23-27.
Events this week include the annual Dump and Run sale to benefit local charities, Glee Club and Chorus Orientation concerts, a lecture on trees in literature, events and lectures about sustainable seafood and new offerings by the Johnson Museum and Cornell Cinema.
Cornell horticulture professor Su-Sheng Gan has identified an enzymatic fountain of youth that slows down the process of leaf death and lays the foundation for the genetics of freshness.
Cornell is in the planning stages of upgrading and expanding the Gannett Health Services facility – to 96,000 square feet, up from 38,000 – by 2017. In July, Cornell Board of Trustees Chair Robert S. Harrison ’76 and his wife, Jane, made a lead gift of $5 million in support of the $55 million project.
In support of diversity and inclusion, faculty and staff are reminded to take religious observances into account year-round when planning events, meetings, programs, meals and travel.
The age of digital photography has brought a new approach, called “computational lighting design.” Still not easy, but new software from Cornell will give amateurs a head start and save time for pros by combining Photoshop layers to create ideal lighting.
A new Cornell study explains why aquarium catfish can change the structure and function of ecosystems when pet owners set them free and they become abundant in non-native waters.
Marina Markot, an international education expert who most recently served at the University of Virginia, has been appointed the new director of Cornell Abroad. She began Aug. 15.
Albie Sachs, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, will make his first official visit to campus Aug. 28-Sept. 7. The lawyer, judge, activist, scholar and author will present a public lecture Aug. 29.
College of Human Ecology researchers have found that children who voluntarily give something valuable away are more likely to be generous in the future.
English professor Thomas Hill will deliver Cornell Plantations’ 2013 William H. and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Aug. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, titled “Pagan and Christian Trees: From Ambrose to ‘Juniper Tree.’”
