Events on campus this week include a lecture on the Rhodes Hall clock by Bill Nye '77, a Terrence Malick film retrospective, and a Humanities Lecture on travel and comparative political thought. (Aug. 25, 2011)
Applications for Cornell's 2012 child care grants for faculty and staff members will be available online Sept. 1-30. The grants help with child care expenses. (Aug. 25, 2011)
Takuma Itoh, Christopher Stark and Eric Nathan, Ph.D. students in the field of composition, have been selected to receive American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers young composer awards. (Aug. 24, 2011)
Pledging as a part of fraternity and sorority membership selection will be abolished at Cornell, President David Skorton has announced. In an effort to end hazing, the ban will begin during the 2012-13 academic year.
Cornell's seismograph, located in the lobby of Snee Hall, recorded the ground vibrations caused by the 5.8-magnitude quake, which took place just before 2 p.m. (Aug. 23, 2011)
Technology Review magazine has named Noah Snavely, assistant professor of computer science, one of its 2011 'TR35,' the magazine's selection of top technology innovators under age 35. (Aug. 23, 2011)
ILR students worked over the summer to help reinvigorate the Buffalo, N.Y., economy through The High Road Runs Through the City service-learning program. (Aug. 23, 2011)
Historian Richard Polenberg and five other faculty members gave New Student Reading Project lectures Aug. 21, on E.L. Doctorow's historical novel 'Homer and Langley.' (Aug. 23, 2011)
When large restaurant companies implement sustainability policies, customers are skeptical of the efforts - and their opinion of those companies may actually diminish, according to a Cornell study. (Aug. 22, 2011)
The Affinito-Stewart Grants Program administered by the President's Council of Cornell Women has awarded eight women assistant professors research grants totaling $49,200. (Aug. 22, 2011)
Richard V. Burkhauser, the Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis at Cornell, has co-authored a new book, 'The Declining Work and Welfare of People with Disabilities.' (Aug. 22, 2011)
