Cornell's senior administrative staff convened Jan. 28 for a tabletop exercise led by university emergency planning consultant Bob Emery of the University of Texas-Houston's Health Science Center. (Feb. 6, 2008)
Mary-Lynn Cummings, assistant dean for facilities and operational services in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been named to the newly created post of director of space planning for Cornell. (Feb. 6, 2008)
World Food Prize laureate and Cornell professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen's course takes a social entrepreneurial approach to world food policy, and he is training educators worldwide on how to the use materials to run participatory courses. (Feb. 6, 2008)
Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars and the Frank family have donated a book collection comprising 137 19th- and 20th-century titles on wine and grape-related topics to the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. (Feb. 6, 2008)
As the first class of doctors is set to graduate from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the triple mission of the institution is ready to proceed, with the research aspect being added now, and patient care set to follow in 2011. (Feb. 5, 2008)
Vermont veterinarian Karen Anderson, a 1982 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine, spent almost two weeks in Haiti last year helping to spread knowledge about caring for and treating animals. (Feb. 5, 2008)
John S. Parker, assistant professor of virology at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2007 Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence.
Keisha Hudson, Class of '99, writes what an outstanding teacher and human being Professor Don Barr was, helping her to voice her anger and organize grassroots efforts toward social change. (Feb. 4, 2008)