The Dalai Lama stops at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on Oct. 9 to bless two mandalas created by Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Namgyal Monastery. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Brian Wansink, professor of marketing and of applied economics at Cornell, won a 2007 Ig Nobel Award for research that showed people ate 73 percent more from bottomless bowls of soup. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Alumni Michael W.N. Chiu, Glenn T. Dallas, Robert B. Goldfarb, Barbara Hirsch Kaplan, Grace E. Richardson and W. Barlow Ware have received Rhodes awards. (Oct. 9, 2007)
"The Pond Guidebook," a new Cornell Cooperative Extension booklet, is full of advice for pond owners in the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Cornell engineers say they developed a microvascular system that can nourish growing tissues, a step that may one day allow laboratories to grow synthetically engineered tissues for transplants. (Oct. 5, 2007)
Cornell's monitoring of Cayuga Lake water quality could become part of a much more extensive system, if the several organizations currently monitoring the lake and surrounding watershed can work together. (Oct. 5, 2007)
This all-things-buggy event is free and open to the public, Oct. 20 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Department of Entomology in Comstock Hall. See an insect zoo, hands-on exhibits, racing cockroaches and more.
Heavy traffic is expected on campus Tuesday, Oct. 9 in connection with the Dalai Lama's 2 p.m. talk, 'A Human Approach to World Peace,' in Barton Hall. (Oct. 5, 2007)
Cambridge University Press has asked libraries around the world to pull 'Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World' from their shelves. Cornell Library refused the request. (Oct. 5, 2007)
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, David Lipsky writes about the new UAW-GM contract's retiree health-care trust fund, called a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, which may have uncertain long-term effects. (Oct. 5, 2007)
The School of Human Ecology began as a department in the agriculture college in 1907. It came into its own in 1919, and 50 years later was renamed the College of Human Ecology. (Oct. 5, 2007)
