Events on campus this week include a Lego expo themed on scientific discovery, live music at the Bear's Den, book talks and an exhibition featuring Cornell's historic plaster cast copies of antiquities.
Michael I. Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine since 2007, will be Cornell University's 16th provost, President Elizabeth Garrett announced today. Kotlikoff will assume the office Aug. 1.
“150 Years of Cornell Student Fashion” opens Feb. 2 in the Human Ecology Building. Part of the sesquicentennial celebration, the exhibit displays ensembles dating back to 1865.
Applications for Cornell's 2012 child care grants for faculty and staff members will be available online Sept. 1-30. The grants help with child care expenses. (Aug. 25, 2011)
Extensive testing of malarial DNA found in birds, bats and other small mammals from five East African countries revealed that malaria has its roots in bird hosts.
Francisco Bastos de Oliveira, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell, was awarded the 2010 Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship from Cornell's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. (Sept. 15, 2010)
Cornell Law School will now have exchange programs and teaching and research collaborations with the Jindal Global Law School of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana, India. (June 10, 2011)
A student-created landscape has been at the Mann Library entrance has been chosen as one of the first landscapes to participate in an international pilot project program. (June 2, 2010)
A team from Facilities Services won the eight-week 'No Excuses' weight-loss contest. Overall, the 767 Cornell staff and faculty who participated in the contest lost a total of 5,110 pounds. (May 31, 2012)