Cornell's ILR School will co-sponsor a conference, 'The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level,' at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 27-28. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Ithaca's official sister city, Elios Proni, Greece, will play host in October to 10 travelers from Ithaca, who will attempt to bring a taste of their twin city back home to share.
Twenty-three Society for the Humanities fellows will focus their scholarly and artistic talents on the theme of improvisation this academic year. Jerrold Levinson will visit Sept. 26-28, and Rustom Bharucha, Oct. 5-19. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Insect cyborgs and new materials for solar panels were among the 71 undergraduate, graduate student and postdoctoral projects spotlighted at the 2007 Engineering Research Showcase, Sept. 11. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Mosaic@Atlanta, a conference of Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic and Native American Cornell alumni, faculty, students and staff, will take place Sept. 28 in Atlanta. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Cornell University Finance and Administration celebrated its three-month-old administrative restructuring with an event in Bartels Hall, Sept. 17. (Sept. 18, 2007)
Keith O'Donnell '09, a junior in the Hotel School, died Sept. 13 from head injuries he received after falling about 30 feet into Cascadilla Gorge on Sept. 8. (Sept. 18, 2007)
For the third year in a row, the Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute has posted detailed previews of the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming cases at its LII Bulletin Web site. (Sept. 17, 2007)
Patrick Wright, director of the ILR School's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, has been named the first William J. Conaty Professor of Strategic Human Resources. (Sept. 17, 2007)
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical is participating in Phase II clinical trials that use patients' own stem cells to repair hearts damaged by severe coronary artery disease. (Sept. 17, 2007)
The theme of this year's Judy's Day event, Sept. 16 at Cornell Plantations, was the bounty of trees, and activities included music, storytelling, games and hands-on crafts. (Sept. 17, 2007)
