In an attempt to dispel stereotypes about Asian-Americans and to network with each other, more than 1,200 students gathered Feb. 15-16 at Cornell for the 31st annual East Coast Asian American Student Union conference. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Several members of Alpha Chi Sigma, Cornell's chemistry fraternity, went to Belle Sherman Elementary School, Feb. 11 and 12, to teach the children about batteries and metals. (Feb. 19, 2008)
College of Engineering alumni Carol Serna '06, M.Eng. '07, and John Erickson '07, are on one-year assignments in Honduras working as AguaClara engineering interns. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Well-known advertising executive, teacher of advertising and public relations and longtime Ithaca resident Howard S. Cogan '50, MPS '80, died Feb. 16 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Retired professor of agronomy Earl Lewis Stone Jr. died July 23 at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 92. Stone served for 31 years on the faculty, teaching and conducting research on forest soils. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Provost Biddy Martin will present the second annual Academic State of the University Address, March 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
It is not too early to register for the Third Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration, slated for April 10-11 on the Cornell campus. (Feb. 18, 2008)
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's $124.3 billion executive budget proposal provides renewed support to higher education in New York, says Ronald Seeber, Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Denying visas to scholars who want to visit the U.S., especially when the denial is political rather than security-related, was discussed at the Feb. 5 meeting of the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, which includes President David Skorton. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Whether the European Union or Asia will reign as the global regional power was a focus of a panel discussion to celebrate a new Cornell student journal, the Cornell International Affairs Review. (Feb. 15, 2008)
John Leggett, of Canterbury, N.H., received an Excellence in Integrated Pest Management Award from the New York State IPM Program at Cornell for development of automated weather instruments.
