Three Cornell University students have received the 2006-07 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The students garnered awards up to $5,000 each from a field of 445 nominations from 224 institutions.
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will give a fiction reading as the first event in the new Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading Series Oct. 3.
Cornell events this week include an eco-cruise on Cayuga Lake, 'A Trip to the Moon' and other films in Willard Straight Hall, a lecture on entrepreneurship, and jazz musician Tia Fuller in Bailey Hall. (Sept. 6, 2012)
A new book, co-edited by Warren Allmon and Linda Grace-Kobas, collects the results of the first Darwin Day at Cornell, held in February 2006. Darwin Day 2007 will be observed Feb. 8-12. (Feb. 6, 2007)
Dr. Carl Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, has returned for diagnosis and treatment to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. During careful post-treatment monitoring, the earliest signs of a potential relapse of myelodysplasia were detected. It is being vigorously treated with the objective of a complete cure. Dr. Sagan is continuing his research and writing schedule and expects to be back at Cornell University in the fall. Sagan.lb.html (The above is the complete story.)
The committee for the 1998 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 15.
The Martha Howell Young Flower Garden at Cornell Plantations is blossoming into a robust and colorful floral symphony, according to horticulturists who invite the public to inspect their handiwork.
Yervant Terzian, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences and chairman of the astronomy department at Cornell, received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece.