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Hockey player wins national achievement award

Hockey player Colin Greening is the third Cornellian to ever win the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS national award for athleticism, academics and community service. (May 13, 2010)

Plans to improve operations, cut costs are moving ahead

Paul Streeter, associate vice president for planning and budget, gave a status report May 10 on the Initiatives Coordination Office's progress.

Things to Do, May 14-21

Events this week include: Cornell Cinema movies; Spring Garden sale, bike race, games designs, higher education in Africa, Mayfest music, Cornell Prison Education Program and wildflowers.

CURW panelists: Religion's role on campus to foster values, explore 'depths of universal life experience'

Six panelists pondered the role of religion in society and on college campuses as part of Cornell United Religious Work's 80th anniversary celebration May 11 at the Cathedral NYC.

A 'retired' McConnell-Ginet as busy as ever with Potter prose, prison program, local theater ... and eggplant

Harry Potter, teaching math in prison and discussing sexuality in Hong Kong - such pursuits have become possible since Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet retired. (May 12, 2010)

ILR course led to internship, law school for Grace Guichardo

Professor Michael Gold's labor and employment law class influenced student Grace Guichardo '10 to explore human resources and law. (May 12, 2010)

Nancy Pelosi to help CU celebrate 142nd Graduation Weekend, May 29-30

Cornell Graduation Weekend, May 29-30, includes a host of events, including Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, speaking at Convocation on May 29, and President David Skorton at Commencement, May 30. (May 12, 2010)

Researchers to study effect of hormone on dairy cows' health during early lactation

Cornell animal science researchers will begin researching the effects of the newly discovered hormone, thanks to a three-year, $350,000 grant from the USDA. (May 12, 2010)

Cathy Caruth lectures on psychoanalysis, history

Cathy Caruth, the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, discussed archiving and erasing history and memory in the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida,during a lecture May 6. (May 12, 2010)

Appreciation of CURW resonates from 1930

The son of an alumnus recalls how his father, in his later years, while suffering from Alzheimer's disease, remembers how Cornell United Religious Work helped him in 1930. (May 12, 2010)

Appreciation of CURW resonates from 1930 -- Ed Hershey (former director of Cornell Publications and Marketing), Communications Director, Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, Salem and Portland, Oregon

My late father so treasured Cornell that decades after he graduated in 1934 his framed diploma dominated the living room of our apartment in Brooklyn (and later was proudly displayed over my desk during the 12 years that I worked…

As oil spreads, citizen-science network tracks birds

By entering their counts online, Gulf Coast bird watchers are helping scientists track hundreds of species that could be affected as the oil spreads toward land. (May 11, 2010)