Events this week include a reading by emeritus professor James McConkey, an exhibition on the Arctic and climate change, a critical dissection of values in the movies and a Cornell Glee Club concert.
Tower Road will be closed from Garden Avenue to the Plant Science Building, June 8-Aug. 19, for a utilities and safety improvements project. Parking impacts will be minimal.
All members of the Cornell community are asked to take such energy-conserving steps as closing laboratory fume hoods and windows, turning off office lights, and shutting down office equipment.
Gavriel Shapiro, professor of comparative and Russian literature, will talk about his new book about the unusual harmony between Vladimir Nabokov and his father April 10 at 4:45 p.m. in in 106G Olin Library.
Cornell has once again been recognized as an adoption-friendly workplace, according to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptive Parents, placing second among educational institutions.
Wojtek Pawlowski, associate professor of plant breeding and genetics, is partnering with French biotech company Meiogenix, with the goal of more effectively engineering maize, the world’s top staple crop.
Silvia Ferrari, the John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded a grant to study the brains of moths with the goal of improving drone flight.