Cornell and the Africana Studies and Research Center are co-sponsoring a major international conference, 'Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan,' at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 21-22. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Jack Freed, the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry, has been honored with the 2008 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy for his advances in the use of electron spin resonance spectroscopy. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Several members of Alpha Chi Sigma, Cornell's chemistry fraternity, went to Belle Sherman Elementary School, Feb. 11 and 12, to teach the children about batteries and metals. (Feb. 19, 2008)
Provost Biddy Martin will present the second annual Academic State of the University Address, March 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
It is not too early to register for the Third Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration, slated for April 10-11 on the Cornell campus. (Feb. 18, 2008)
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's $124.3 billion executive budget proposal provides renewed support to higher education in New York, says Ronald Seeber, Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Denying visas to scholars who want to visit the U.S., especially when the denial is political rather than security-related, was discussed at the Feb. 5 meeting of the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, which includes President David Skorton. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Whether the European Union or Asia will reign as the global regional power was a focus of a panel discussion to celebrate a new Cornell student journal, the Cornell International Affairs Review. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Harold Tanner '52 supports programming for students on West Campus, naming the house fellow program for Hunter Rawlings, who spearheaded the residential initiative. (Feb. 14, 2008)