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$1 million gift from Kionix to support graduate education

A $1 million gift from Kionix Inc., an Ithaca-based company founded to commercialize technology developed at Cornell, has established the Kionix Graduate Fellowship in Engineering. (Oct. 11, 2012)

Faculty member launches new performance group

Dance faculty member Byron Suber's newest project, combining dance with experimental video and music, will utilize the talents of students, local youth, community members and professionals. (Oct. 11, 2012)

eText tryout expands to 16 courses this fall

An expanded trial of electronic textbooks will include research to see how they affect teaching and learning. (Oct. 11, 2012)

University commitment to diversity underscored by college/unit initiatives

A 'big picture' of diversity planning emerged from a 'diversity retreat' at which Cornell's senior leaders shared the diversity initiatives that their colleges and units will pursue this academic year. (Oct. 11, 2012)

Things to Do, Oct. 12-19

Events on campus this week include concerts by Ensemble X and Violons du Roy, and lectures on politics and the 2012 election, the Morrill Act, and minorities in engineering and tech fields. (Oct. 11, 2012)

Assemblies Update, Week of Oct. 8

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. (Oct. 11, 2012)

Redesigned website tells all about Cornell, then and now

The institutional Research and Planning website offers data about Cornell in interactive, user-friendly graphic form. (Oct. 10, 2012)

Early music expert, anti-apartheid activist to spark intellectual life at Cornell

Two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large have been appointed to help spark intellectual and cultural life at Cornell: musicologist Christopher Hogwood and anti-apartheid activist Albie Sachs. (Oct. 10, 2012)

Sandra Fluke '03 to address civic responsibility, women's and health care issues, Oct. 15

Women's rights advocate Sandra Fluke will return to campus to engage in a public discussion on women, health initiatives and civic responsibility, Oct. 15 in Statler Auditorium. (Oct. 10, 2012)

Skorton recognizes achievements, addresses campus climate

Thanking staff members for their hard work, President Skorton focused his annual address to staff on steps Cornell is taking to enhance diversity and improve the organization's climate in general. (Oct. 10, 2012)

Birds of paradise revealed in Oct. 13 talk

A Cornell ornithologist and a National Geographic photographer will discuss their work studying, videotaping and photographing birds of paradise. (Oct. 9, 2012)

Gerner, professor emerita of policy analysis and management, dies at 64

Jennifer Gerner, professor emerita of policy analysis and management who studied family and education policy and helped transform Cornell's residential communities, died suddenly Oct. 4. (Oct. 9, 2012)