HeiserFest, a symposium honoring Shoals Marine Lab's second director, J.B. Heiser, featured lectures by 16 colleagues whose careers he helped to shape. Presenters came from as far away as Australia. (Sept. 14, 2012)
Ben Wie '13, a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, supervised an animal behavior research team this past summer. The team looked at chemicals in mice brains. (Sept. 14, 2012)
The Contested Global Landscapes project will bring together Cornell social scientists to research the financial, political and legal implications of this trend through 2015. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Student leaders from more than 20 organizations convened Sept. 8 at a Leadership Roundtable, an initiative that brings student leaders together on a monthly basis to address issues of concern. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Faculty members, administrators and IT professionals packed G10 Biotech to contribute ideas for the university's five-year strategic plan for information technology. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Nearly 49 percent of the Cornell Graduate School's 1,995 new students this year are from other countries, and admissions are more selective and competitive, with a 5 percent jump in applications. (Sept. 13, 2012)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 13, 2012)
At the Career Connections Reception Sept. 10, College of Arts and Sciences alumni gathered to help liberal arts students think about and practice how they present themselves to potential employers. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Events on campus this week include jazz and classical music, book talks with Victor Nee and Frank H.T. Rhodes, and opening events in the Creative Writing Reading Series and Schwartz Center season. (Sept. 13, 2012)
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.