Thomas P. LiVigne, manager of real estate operations at Cornell, will take over for John Majeroni as interim director, effective April 2. (March 7, 2007)
Daylight-saving time will start three weeks earlier this year, on Sunday, March 11, and end one week later, on Sunday, Nov. 4, and most Windows and Mac computers will require an operating system update. (March 7, 2007)
Mary F. Berens, director of alumni affairs, has been named senior campaign officer for Cornell's ambitious $4 billion fund-raising campaign. Her appointment to this newly created position is effective Sept. 1. (March 7, 2007)
In the late 1840s, Ezra Cornell was discouraged working in the budding telegraph business. He was rarely home and the business was chaotic. (March 7, 2007)
The Codes and Judicial Committee delivered its report on proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct and the university's judicial system to the University Assembly March 6. (March 6, 2007)
A grass-pellet stove has been installed in the fireplace of Cornell's Big Red Barn -- the first public demonstration of such technology in New York state. (March 6, 2007)
Cornell President David Skorton, Ithaca College President Peggy Williams and Tompkins Cortland Community College President Carl Haynes discussed rising costs in higher education in the premiere of Skorton's radio show, 'Higher Ed in the Round.' (March 6, 2007)
Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins and historian Francois Hartog will deliver free public lectures at Cornell this month as part of the University Lectures series. (March 6, 2007)
Soil scientist and Cornell alumnus A. Colin McClung was honored on campus March 1 for his contributions to converting the Brazilian Cerrado from wasteland into highly productive cropland. (March 6, 2007)
Cornell Law School and the Thai Bar Association have forged a scholarship and exchange program honoring Cornell alumna, Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol. (March 6, 2007)
Cornell's Eric Cheyfitz defended academic freedom in recent testimony in the case of controversial Native American scholar and activist Ward Churchill's threatened dismissal from the University of Colorado at Boulder. (March 6, 2007)
