Professor James Maas delivered his first live lecture to Psych 101 students at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, interacting with the students via two-way videoconference. (Nov. 30, 2007)
Drawing both supporters and protesters, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke on campus Nov. 29 about 'a new paradigm of peril which has descended across the world.' (Nov. 30, 2007)
A visiting scholar from Afghanistan is taking home a truckload of much-needed books and computers, thanks to Cornell veterinary students and the Cornell Computer Reuse Association, with an assist from Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Two classes in Cornell's design and environmental analysis department collaborated with local senior citizens to design and build four full-scale models for the senior housing facility's dining and living areas. (Nov. 30, 2007)
Exit, stage left. David Bathrick, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Theatre, Film and Dance and professor of German studies, has had a remarkable academic career. He's also a raconteur of the first rank.
Denis Johnson, Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky will lecture in an undergraduate writing course and teach in the English 581/Writers at Work guest seminars for graduate student writers in spring 2008. (Nov. 29, 2007)
The University Assembly 'enthusiastically and unanimously' approved a revised Campus Code of Conduct at a recent meeting. The document will go to President Skorton for review. (Nov. 29, 2007)
Jackie Robinson Foundation/Sinclair scholars attended a Nov. 19 dinner at the Statler Hotel with Keith Sinclair, who, along with this wife, Esther Sinclair, has established scholarships for minority students at Cornell. (Nov. 29, 2007)