Cornell is getting medieval this weekend as it hosts the 17th International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History at the Statler Hotel, Saturday, Nov. 14, through Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Stuart MacDonald Brown Jr., a former Cornell administrator and professor who was an authority on the philosophy of ethics and political theory, died March 18 at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 80. He died from complications of a stroke, said his wife, Catherine D. Hemphill.
Mathematician Paul Olum, who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, became chair of the mathematics department at Cornell and then provost and president of the University of Oregon, died Jan. 19.
Anthony Seeger, curator of the Folkways Collection and director of Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution, will make his third visit to Cornell on March 24-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. On Wednesday, March 27, he will give a public talk entitled "From the Suy‡ Indians to the Grateful Dead: 'Thanks.' "
Mary F. Berens, a 1974 graduate of Cornell, has been appointed director of alumni affairs at the university, said Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Berens succeeds James D. Hazzard, a 1950 Cornell graduate.
Professor-at-Large Toni Morrison, Cornell MFA '55, the 1993 Nobel laureate in literature and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 'Beloved,' will present a free and open lecture on literature and public life.
Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 22, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend. The annual meeting of the 440-member council and a quarterly meeting of the trustees are scheduled on campus every fall.
Steven B. Belkin, a Cornell alumnus, chairman and founder of Trans National Group, a Boston-based privately held corporation, and the principal owner of the professional sports teams the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Thrashers, will be honored on Oct. 14-15, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.
Cornell researchers are playing an important role in yet another planetary space mission, this time to Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system. On June 30 at approximately 10:30 p.m. EDT, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will go into orbit around Saturn for an extensive tour.
In the first study to test people who eat foods that have been bred for higher-than-normal concentrations of micronutrients, nutritional sciences professor Jere Haas and colleagues found that the iron status of women who ate iron-rich rice was 20 percent higher than those who ate traditional rice. (November 29, 2005)