Kersten, Ph.D. ’97, an experienced molecular nutrition researcher and academic leader, comes to Cornell from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where he was most recently professor and chair of the Division of Human Nutrition and Health.
For their work on strengthening food crops against pests and diseases, and on hybrid materials for applications including cancer therapeutics, respectively, Cornell professors Herb Aldwinckle and Ulrich Wiesner have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Celebrated designer and pioneer in transdisciplinary, practice-based research, Faircloth, FAIA, will join Cornell as Associate Professor in AAP’s Department of Architecture and as a Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy will host author, Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten for “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America, in the next installment of the Koen-Horowitz Lecture Series at Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall from 7:30pm to 9:00pm on Friday, November 8.
Theda Skocpol, Harvard scholar and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, will present the public lecture “Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses” on April 9.
To honor the anniversary, the Society has produced a booklet chronicling the history of the A.D. White House as president’s home, art museum and locus for the humanities at Cornell.