Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, has been named to lead a newly established program to integrate the life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Sangtae Kim, vice president of Lilly Research Laboratories(LRL), a division of Eli Lilly & Co., will visit Cornell University Monday, April 15, through Wednesday, April 17, to deliver the 15th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures.
Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations at Cornell University, today (April 3, 2002) issued a statement concerning the university's review of events involving the arrest of a student by Cornell Police at Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, at 3:30 a.m. on January 27, 2002. (April 3, 2002)
Cornell will continue its membership in both the Worker Rights Consortium and the Fair Labor Association, two organizations aimed at ending sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry.
A campus organization at Cornell University that promotes and celebrates the multi-racial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities, and Nationalities Discussion) and its founder and president, Cornell senior Tamika Lewis, will be presented with the eighth-annual Perkins Prize, including an award of $5,000, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings during a ceremony Tuesday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus. (April 3, 2002)
The leader of the Los Angeles County Home-Care Workers Union, the second largest local in the nation, and a labor reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was a Pulitzer prize nominee are part of Union Days 2002 at Cornell University. This year's theme, "Unions, Democracy and Civil Society," looks at the role of the labor movement in achieving political and economic justice. Union Days, which aims to make students aware of the issues at the forefront of labor organizing, takes place at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Ives Hall, April 10-12. Events are free and open to the public. (April 3, 2002)
John Bogle, founder of the pioneering Vanguard Group, now one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world, will speak on his holistic "servant leadership" style at Cornell University Wednesday, April 10. His talk, at 4:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall auditorium, is free and open to the public. Bogle, who was named one of the top four investment giants of the 20th century by Fortune magazine in 1999, will discuss the holistic approach to organizational effectiveness that he favors. It involves the concepts of serving others, sharing decision-making and promoting a sense of community within an organization. Initially developed by an AT&T senior executive in the 1970s, it has been championed recently by management gurus Ken Blanchard and Warren Bennis. Bogle's talk is part of the Park Leadership Speakers series sponsored by Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. (April 3, 2002)
Should hospitals be allowed to sell your blood to researchers? Should researchers be permitted to patent your genes without your consent? Those are among the compelling questions Lori B. Andrews will address Wednesday, April 10, when she delivers the second annual Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture at Cornell University Law School. The talk will be at 4 p.m. in the Stein Mancuso Amphitheater in Myron Taylor Hall on Cornell's campus. Admission is free and open to the general public. (April 2, 2002)
The composition of the Presidential Search Committee to nominate a successor to Cornell President Hunter Rawlings was announced on March 30, by Harold Tanner, chair of the Board of Trustees; Peter C. Meinig, chair-elect; and Edwin H. Morgens, vice chair.
Some researchers think all problems can be resolved, given a sufficiently large and fast computer. Other researchers believe that computers are inherently inexact, and the results produced by machines cannot be trusted. Somewhere in the middle is a narrow band of academics who fit snugly between these two schools of thought. To explain, Warwick Tucker, the H.C. Wang Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Cornell, will talk on "Using a Computer to do Rigorous Mathematics," at the third annual Mathematics Awareness Month public lecture on Saturday, April 6, at 1:30 p.m. in 251 Malott Hall on campus. The public is invited to attend the talk without charge, and no calculus or advanced mathematics are required for understanding the subject. (March 29, 2002)
