Events on campus this week include organ concerts in Sage; concerts in Bailey; lectures by economist David Card, Steven Zunes, Ph.D. '90, Nick Salvato and Hod Lipson; poetry readings; museum events. (March 10, 2011)
Effective June 1, Jason Locke became associate vice provost for enrollment, and Shawn Felton became director of undergraduate admissions. They had been serving in interim roles since last July.
In July, 14 students visited Cornell for an intensive one-week course, the Warrior-Scholar Project, designed to facilitate their transition from combat life to institutions of higher education.
The Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC), a national research center at Cornell University, will hold its annual meeting June 21 in 700 Clark Hall on the Cornell campus. The meeting, under the theme of "Moving Into the Future," will feature presentations on current research, including opportunities in medicine and life sciences and the novel properties of nanostructures. The public is invited to attend the meeting without charge, although there will be limited seating. (June 10, 2002)
Big Red tackle JC Tretter '13 is enduring grueling 12-hour days of training as he prepares to play in the Senior Bowl All-Star Game in Mobile, Ala., Jan. 26.
Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management will hold an in-service income tax school in central New York state to review income tax reporting and management Nov. 7 to 20.
Two professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the team that will develop a new organization to manage the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) during the decade 2004-2014.
“Racing Extinction,” a documentary airing Dec. 2 on the Discovery Channel, features the work of Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist Christopher Clark and warns of the extinction of species.