Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett and Department of English faculty and staff will honor the late M. H. Abrams as a towering figure in literary and cultural studies at a memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium.
George Mueller '54 has given the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences $500,000 to support the hiring of a faculty member in Farm Business Management.
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)