Project 2000, Creating a Best Managed University, a strategy for organizational change designed to make Cornell a model for effective university administration and to enable the university to target its resources on academic excellence, has been announced by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings. The Project 2000 will be part of a larger effort to make Cornell's administrative processes more effective and efficient.
A new book by Daniel R. Altschuler, director of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, makes a big bang itself as it creatively attempts to answer some of these questions while covering topics ranging from astronomy to physics, and paleontology to geology.
Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry, and David Bindel, assistant professor of computer science, have been named 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for outstanding early career success. (Feb. 22, 2010)
Michael Sturman, an associate professor of human resources management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, was named editor of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly as of July 2002.
The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference at Cornell will be held Tuesday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On-site registration will begin at 9 a.m. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics, the conference will feature forecasts for agricultural and economic issues.
Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings will be heading to China Nov. 14 for a four-day trip to Beijing. He plans to sign an official partnership agreement with Peking University (formalizing Cornell's newest academic major, China and Asia-Pacific studies), deliver a keynote address at the 2005 Beijing Forum and participate in an engineering workshop with Tsinghua University. (November 07, 2005)
CUPetHealth, developed by students, can help pet owners track how much they feed their cats or dogs as well as their pet's vaccinations and medications.
Acclaimed contemporary Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon will read from her work Sunday, Feb. 22, at Tompkins County Library and will be at Cornell University Monday, Feb. 23, to deliver a talk, "Writing, Desire and Two Billion Hungry People." Both events are free and open to the public. The Feb. 22 reading is at 2:30 p.m. in the library's Borg Warner Room. The Feb. 23 talk at Cornell is at 4:30 p.m. in White Hall, Room 106. "Ronit's visit offers the Cornell community a window onto the vibrancy of Israeli literature and culture," said Deborah Starr, an assistant professor in Near Eastern studies. "Her talk will also offer insights into the role of public intellectuals in Israeli society." (February 17, 2004)
The Cornell PULSE (Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences) Survey finds that student satisfaction, overall and with various aspects of the Cornell experience, remains high. (May 12, 2011)