A handful of faculty attended the informal Dec. 3 brown-bag lunch hosted by Provost Kent Fuchs to discuss the findings of the life sciences task force.
Cornell received a local City of Ithaca Pride of Ownership Award for returning part of Libe Slope back to a seasonal meadow that needs to be mowed only twice a year. (Dec. 3, 2009)
The Benefits Option Transfer Period will run until Dec. 31 for contract college employees to change health plans and enroll in Select Benefits for 2010. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Consumer Credit Counseling Services offers free financial counseling by phone, in person at their offices, or in on-campus meetings and debt and bankruptcy help for a modest, sliding scale fee. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Events this week include original dance at the Schwartz Center and student films at Cornell Cinema, a holiday party at the Johnson Museum, and the 2009 Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Three local nonprofit organizations will receive a total of $10,000 in grants from a class in the College of Human Ecology designed to teach students about philanthropy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
A panel of experts in geology, energy, groundwater and public policy educated the Cornell community about the broad range of competing energy and environmental issues surrounding the drilling controversy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Social science departments are too diffuse for the university to excel in the discipline and should strategically merges some units, according to task force findings discussed Dec. 1.
Dorian Bandy '10 has won a 2010 Marshall Scholarship and will study Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The scholarship supports two years of study at a British university. (Dec. 2, 2009)