The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the selection of fiction writer Andrew Boryga '13 as the Undergraduate Artist of the Year for 2012-13. A reading and award presentation is April 25.
The Toward New Destinations diversity planning document has been revised to reflect outcomes as well as plans to promote diversity and inclusion across campus, making them integral to university life.
Two changes will be made to the Time Away from Work policy for nonacademic staff: one in how sick, health and personal leave are recorded and one in using accrued vacation time.
Events on campus this week include music of the Irish-American experience from Solas, a book talk on Abraham Lincoln's rhetorical power, a Glee Club collaborative concert and new foreign films.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Researchers have uncovered cellular-level detail of what happens when bone bears repetitive stress over time, visualizing damage at smaller scales than previously observed.
President David Skorton has issued a call for immigration with other college presidents. Cornell and other campuses will hold events April 29 related to the effort to reform immigration laws.
Our mental pictures of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using advanced imaging techniques, report Cornell neuroscientist Nathan Spreng and colleagues.
Cornell University Library will work with researchers to meet new requirements for federally funded research that call for free access to funded research and data.
Professor Gordon Baym, Cornell's 2013 Hans Bethe lecturer, will discuss the terrestrial experiments that explore extremes of matter in his public lecture March 27.
