Fredrik Logevall, vice provost for international affairs and director of the Einaudi Center, and David Greenberg of Rutgers University, discussed “JFK, Vietnam, and What Might Have Been?” Oct. 15 in New York City.
A faculty committee charged with exploring opportunities to position the social sciences at Cornell for excellence in 10 to 15 years has issued a report that will serve as the basis for campuswide discussion over the coming months.
Events on campus this week include talks on energy and the environment; film on Tibet; new-music, violinist Lin, contrapunkt! and CU Winds concerts; Greg Mills on Africa; war veterans' fundraiser.
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the U.S. government have created a checklist to identify patients who develop a common and potentially fatal secondary meningitis infection.
Fiction writer Manuel Muñoz, MFA '98, has received a Whiting Writers' Award worth $50,000. The awards were presented Oct. 29 in New York City. (Nov. 4, 2008)
Cornell Dining has changed hours of some residence dining rooms during breakfast and lunch, when demand in the spring semester is low, opened a new cafe in Uris Hall, and changed some offerings.
New postgraduate fellowships, named for Frank H.T. Rhodes and funded by a $5 million gift from The Atlantic Philanthropies, will further research in the Law School and Cornell Population Program.
Cornell E-News, a new monthly electronic newsletter for alumni, parents and friends of the university, is the result of a collaborative effort between the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development and the Division of University Communications. (December 13, 2005)
Humans speak so many different languages because we're wired to keep up with rapid linguistic change, according to a new study by Cornell psychologist Morten Christiansen and his colleagues. (Nov. 5, 2012)
Cornell will host 40 writing program administrators and faculty Oct. 7-8 for the Ivy Plus Writing Consortium, to discuss programmatic issues, their evolving roles on campus and trends in the field.