Jeffrey J. Doyle, Cornell University professor of plant biology and the Hays and James Clark Director of the Office of Undergraduate Biology, has been appointed the new chair of Cornell's Health Careers Program Advisory Board (HCPAB).
Events on campus this week include a museum party, spring dance concerts, student films, a reading by MFA fiction writers and poets, and all five Beethoven piano concertos conducted by Leon Fleisher. (May 3, 2011)
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman will be honored Nov. 6 by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) with a 2003 National Equal Justice Award for his role in the successful defense of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy before the U.S. Supreme Court. The award will be presented at a gala dinner at the Hilton New York in New York City. Emmy award-winning actress Alfre Woodard will be mistress of ceremonies at the event. The Supreme Court last June upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policy in a decision widely hailed as a landmark in the law of higher education. Lehman served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School from 1994 to July 1, 2003, when he assumed the presidency of Cornell. During his tenure as dean, he helped shape the legal argument for universities' freedom to consider race as a limited factor in the admissions process in order to achieve meaningful levels of racial integration. When the Supreme Court upheld the Law School's admissions policy, Lehman said, "The question is no longer whether affirmative action is legal; it is how to hasten the day when affirmative action is no longer needed." (November 04, 2003)
Dr. Maria I. New, the Harold and Percy Uris Professor of Pediatric University Medical College, and pediatrician-in-chief at The New York Hospital, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Nine months ago, New York City and the upstate New York towns in the New York City watershed formally settled their differences over environmental restrictions in the watershed region, but close to a third of the upstate residents don't know about the agreement, according to Cornell rural sociologists.
On New Year's Day, 29 Cornell students and eight faculty members left Ithaca for a three-week study tour of India and Thailand as part of Cornell's International Agriculture in the Developing Nations II class.
The National Association of Biology Teachers' 1999 Four-year College and University Teaching Award has been conferred on Rita A. Calvo, director of the Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers and a senior lecturer in molecular biology and genetics.
Bridging the Gap
This summer saw several regional firsts for Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q). The medical college, in Education City, Doha, initiated a new training program in Qatar for medical interpreters as an…