Events over the next two weeks include a program by the Cornell Wind Symphony; a performance from Cornell’s Ancient Theater Performance Group; the annual Mini Locally Grown Dance concert; and, of course, a Thanksgiving feast.
President David Skorton prioritized faculty renewal in his State of the University Address June 9 during Reunion Weekend. He also announced that the naming of the new humanities building that will break ground in 2013.
Ritter, professor of government and vice provost at the University of Texas, will begin her new appointment Aug. 1. A third-generation Cornellian, she is the college’s first woman dean and first externally hired dean.
The School of Hotel Administration will honor them at its premier event, the fifth annual Cornell Hospitality Icon and Innovator Awards gala, in New York City June 4.
'Cyberasociality' (inability or unwillingness to relate to others via social media) is the new dyslexia, sociologists say: a kind of online motion sickness.
President Elizabeth Garrett sent a message to students Dec. 1 encouraging them to take advantage of campus support services to help in dealing with stress that comes with the end of the semester.
Suzanne Lanyi Charles, assistant professor of city and regional planning, looks at the effects of large corporations’ converting foreclosed houses into rental units in a pair of recently published research papers.
At the Sept. 12 Faculty Senate meeting, Provost Kent Fuchs updated faculty on various university topics, including his acceptance of the revised academic calendar the senate had ratified in May.
A Cornell study describes for the first-time evidence of ‘jumping genes’ adopting a bacterial immune mechanism for transferring genetic material between bacteria and across bacterial species.
Cornell has worked out its differences with the Landscape Plant Development Center; the resolution recognizes the contributions each has made to the development of new plant varieties. (Nov. 28, 2011)