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)
J. Craig Venter, a co-author of the human genome sequences, spoke about the future of synthetic life forms for producing vaccines and consuming carbon dioxide, among other uses, in a talk April 28. (May 3, 2011)
The ILR School awarded the first Clete Daniel Memorial Medal April 29 to Evelyn Bing '12, who studied in a program in Dublin established by Daniel. (May 3, 2011)
Professor of English and comparative literature Jonathan Culler will join 31 other scholars as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the 2011-12 academic year. (May 3, 2011)
Passengers around the country submitted comments through Regulation Room, a Cornell-run site that gives members of the public a simple way to weigh in on proposed rules that affect them. (May 3, 2011)
After an extensive search, Andrew Thompson Miller has been named associate vice provost for academic diversity initiatives. Currently at the University of Michigan, he will assume his new position July 1. (May 2, 2011)
Professor Rui Hai Liu and Professor Emeritus Malcolm Bourne, both of food science, have been honored with awards from the Institute of Food Technologists. (May 2, 2011)