Using 3-D time-lapse imaging, physicists, working with plant biologists, have discovered that certain roots, when faced with barriers like a patch of stiff dirt, form helical spring-like shapes. (Sept. 24, 2012)
Aimee Turner, chief financial officer and treasurer of the J. Craig Venter Institute, has been named Cornell associate vice president and university controller. She will begin her post Oct. 17. (Sept. 24, 2012)
VP and chief financial officer Joanne DeStefano has announced that Aimee Turner of the J. Craig Venter Institute has accepted the position of associate vice president and university controller. (Sept. 24, 2012)
Holocaust survivor Marianne Willems-Hendrix endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Cornell despite never having attended the university. It encourages study of Jewish women. (Sept. 24, 2012)
The technology of the future will come sooner, and be stranger, than any of us can imagine, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google Inc., at the Sept. 20 Hatfield lecture. (Sept. 24, 2012)
In his Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Charles Blow used the Trayvon Martin case to illustrate how today's news consumers make little distinction between straight reporting and agenda-driven activism. (Sept. 21, 2012)
On Sept. 20 Cornell's School of Hotel Administration celebrated 90 years to the day of educating entrepreneurs and leaders in the hospitality industry with a reception in Statler Hall's Park Atrium. (Sept. 21, 2012)
An interview English professor Satya Mohanty gave to the South Asian Review has created an explosive reaction and a new organization, the Global South Cultural Dialogue Project. (Sept. 20, 2012)
Events on campus this week include New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin, A.D. White Professor-at-Large Margaret McFall-Ngai, a West Campus architecture walk and a celebration of agriculture. (Sept. 20, 2012)
