Irene Rosenfeld, CEO and chairman of Kraft Foods Inc., gave a summary of her strategy for turning around the fortune of the international corporation as the 2007 Lewis H. Durland Memorial lecturer, Oct. 18. (Oct. 22, 2007)
The welcome birds of spring will soon return to fields and farms, feeders and fences. Heralding yet another sign of the coming season: the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's popular Spring Field Ornithology course.
More than 10,000 cars and easily three times that number of pedestrians crisscross the Cornell University campus each weekday. The number of times pedestrians travel a crosswalk and contend with oncoming traffic approaches a million times per week. Now, the ground rules for this interaction have changed. On campus, pedestrians now have the right of way in all crosswalks. Motorists and cyclists must yield to pedestrians -- slowing down and stopping if necessary. Drivers racing with pedestrians to get to intersections and cyclists weaving through crosswalks will be subject to enforcement penalties issued by Cornell Police. Throughout the fall, this will be enforced as part of the rules and regulations associated with the university's Campus Code of Conduct; by January 2003, it will be enacted as state law. (September 26, 2002)p>
Stephen F. Hamilton, professor of human development and co-director of Cornell University's Family Life Development Center, has been named associate provost for outreach, Provost Biddy Martin announced Nov. 5. Hamilton was appointed to a three-year term beginning Nov. 1. The new part-time position of associate provost for outreach was recommended by the university's Land Grant Mission Review Task Force last spring, a year after five panels began reviewing Cornell's land-grant mission. The part-time position will allow Hamilton to continue his other academic responsibilities. (November 11, 2003)
Events on campus this week include sesquicentennial exhibitions of fossils, plaster casts and a variety of objects, documents and artifacts tied to Cornell's history; and Argentinian tango practice.
The 20th annual Share the Warmth campaign will run through Dec. 10. boxes have been distributed across Cornell and throughout Ithaca for donations of winter clothing and other cold-weather articles. (Nov. 15, 2012)
The first phases of the strategic-planning process are well under way, but 'the solutions are in their infancy,' said Bill Fry, dean of the university faculty, at a special meeting of the Faculty Senate July 22.
Graduate student Aoise Stratford's play 'The Unfortunates,' winner of the Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwright Competition, will be performed May 11-12 at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora, N.Y.
Historian Garry Wills, author of 2008 New Student Reading Project selection 'Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America,' gave a lecture Sept. 17 on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. (Sept. 19, 2008)
For the third time since 2008, student engineers won the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers ChemE Car competition, Oct. 28 in Pittsburgh. (Nov. 14, 2012)