A.D. White Professor-at-Large Anne Carson led workshops on collaboration, lectured and performed and worked with students the week of Feb. 13 while on campus.
Events this week include physicist Kathy Selby at the Light in Winter Festival, old-time duo The Pearly Snaps, William Finn's musical 'Elegies' and fiction writer Edwidge Danticat.
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. (Feb. 16, 2012)
A team of international researchers is working to tackle the global problem of plant viral diseases that are spread by insects, thanks to close to $1 million in funding.
Preliminary research suggests that soybeans, usually a more southern crop, can be grown successfully in New York as a result of climate change. Field trials are underway.
Christine Shoemaker, the Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions for an engineer. Two Cornell alumni were also elected.
Three Cornell researchers will discuss mitigating climate change, biochar and the challenges of wheat rust, respectively, at the 2012 Association for Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
Twenty-eight of Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's essays are collected in a book edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg, published Jan. 23 by Oxford University Press.
Students have created a performance piece based on the life of A.D. White, in which the audience and the A.D. White House will be a part of performances Feb. 16-18.
For 60 Cornell students, winter break ended early: In January they applied what they had learned in the classroom by working for three weeks on 14 international development projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
President David Skorton has issued a statement on diversity, outlining goals to which he and Provosts Kent Fuchs and Laurie Glimcher have committed, and announcing a new University Diversity Council.
President Skorton and Provosts Kent Fuchs and Laurie Glimcher are directing the development of diversity goals through the University Diversity Council, with universitywide accountability.
