Frank Wagner '67, one of only 16 individuals since 1790 to serve as Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court, has returned to Cornell to mentor students at the Legal Information Institute. (July 11, 2011)
In January and February, Cornell Cinema bares all with "The Male Body: Screenings and Preenings," a series of six films celebrating the masculine form on screen.
The director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center hopes to launch the center into a nationally known premium social sciences research center that sponsors groundbreaking work on human development and economic and family demography.
Professor Eswar Prasad writes a Cornell Perspectives piece on how he became a more visible advocate for economic policies by jumping from the IMF to Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Leon Anziano, former president and chief executive of Arch Chemicals Inc., will give the eighth Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, Feb. 21. His talk, "Transforming a Business with Innovation and Empowerment," will be in 155 Olin Hall at 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Anziano, a 1965 alumnus of Cornell, became a visiting professor in the School of Business at the University of New Haven in 2000 following his retirement as president and chief operating officer of Arch Chemicals. The specialty chemicals concern, with interests in microelectronic chemicals, water chemicals and performance chemicals, was spun off from Olin Corp. in 1999. (February 14, 2002)
Although breast pumping has gotten easier with new pumps, few studies have looked at the effects of milk expression on the health of infants and mothers, says a Cornell nutritionist. (July 6, 2011)
A team of Cornell students and faculty will receive up to $1 million in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funding to develop a vehicle capable of driving itself on city streets.
Temple Grandin, a Colorado State University assistant professor of animal science who studies the humane handling of agricultural animals, will give a Cornell Lecture Oct. 11.
The New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell has announced the appointment of Michael I. Kotlikoff as chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences.