Germany's highest civilian award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Officer of the Cross of the Order of Merit), will be conferred on Klaus W. Beyenbach, Cornell professor of physiology.
Instead of whiling away the lazy summer days listening to Hootie and the Blowfish and playing video games, a select group of 15-year-olds will be discoursing on the theories and philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Machiavelli and Plato, and earning three college credits.
Checkmate? Not yet. But having a supercomputer battle the world's human chess champion to a draw is just a hint of the future power of these man-made analytical superstars.
The Macedonian ambassador to the United States, Ljubica Z. Acevska, will visit Cornell through Oct. 10 to meet with faculty and students and discuss a variety of issues, among them human rights violations, international law and Macedonia's position in the international arena.
Janice R. Lachance, deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, will be joined by other Clinton administration officials and representatives of labor unions representing federal workers in a visit to Cornell on Oct. 8, for a meeting of the National Partnership Council.
Juniors Jessie Comba, Katherine McEachern and Ryan Walter have won 2007-09 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. Sophomore Parbir Grewal and junior Anna Owczarczyk have received Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. (April 10, 2008)
Richard Gaulton, a Cornell alumnus and scholar of Chinese politics, has been named director of Cornell Abroad. Gaulton succeeds Urbain DeWinter, who accepted a post this summer as international programs administrator at Boston University.
Mother Mallard, the world's first portable synthesizer ensemble, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its electronic debut at Cornell on Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts.
Maria Antonia Garcés, a professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell, has been awarded the Modern Language Association's 34th James Russell Lowell Prize.