Jeffrey S. Lehman will be inaugurated as president of Cornell University in ceremonies on three Cornell campuses around the globe, Oct. 12-16. The events will feature remarks and lectures by the Sheikha of Qatar, national AIDS research leader Anthony Fauci, prize-winning architect Richard Meier and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "Cornell Celebrates a New Beginning" is the theme of the inauguration, in which Lehman, 47, will challenge higher education to provide fresh leadership in areas that are critical to the well-being of all humanity. (September 30, 2003)
Events this week include a comparative literature forum, an annual fashion show, 'The Vagina Monologues,' folk concerts and a Bronfenbrenner series lecture.
In the vanguard of higher education for the past 100 years, the College of Human Ecology at Cornell will celebrate its centennial with a feast of lectures, panel discussions, exhibits and more at its Centennial Celebration Weekend on the Cornell campus.
Peter C. Meinig, a 1962 graduate of Cornell University and chairman and chief executive officer of HM International Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., was unanimously elected chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 2002 in New York City, Jan. 25. Meinig's one-year term begins July 1. He will succeed Harold Tanner, a 1952 Cornell graduate who has served as chairman since 1997. (January 28, 2002)
Kenneth P. Birman, Cornell professor of computer science, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's oldest and largest organization of computer professionals. He will be formally inducted, along with 33 other new members.
Gwendolyn Alden Dean has been named coordinator of Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, ending a six-month national search. Dean most recently was director of Stanford University's Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Center.
Scratching the surface of wild tomatoes that bugs don't bother, Cornell scientists discovered the plants' chemical secret for repelling insect pests: a complex, waxy substance that commercially grown tomatoes have "forgotten" how to make.
Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.
George L. McNew, who was instrumental in bringing the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research, Inc., to its current site on the campus of Cornell University, died Oct. 30, in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 90.
The appointment of Mary George Opperman as associate vice president for human resources at Cornell has been announced by Senior Vice President Frederick A. Rogers. She will assume her new position July 15.