A candlelight vigil on Ho Plaza organized by the Cornell chapter of Amnesty International kicked off 'Darfur Awareness Week,' March 26-30. (March 27, 2007)
The Humanities Book Art Project will be installed on campus at the Hirshland Gallery, Kroch Library, on April 4 and will be on display until April 25. (March 27, 2007)
Marilyn Tebor Shaw '76 and a group of six other volunteers are working to ensure that nomadic Kenyan children who hunger for an education are able to get one. (March 27, 2007)
Recognized for his work on next-generation defense projects, systems engineer Earl Valencia was honored in February as a 'New Face of Engineering' by the National Engineers Week Foundation. (March 27, 2007)
Alumnus Jay W. Waks will receive the ILR School's Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, and Paul Cole, secretary-treasurer emeritus of the New York State AFL-CIO, will receive the Jerome Alpern Award March 29. (March 27, 2007)
Cornell trustee Ratan Tata, B.Arch. '62, chief executive officer of Tata Sons Ltd., is recognized in the March 26 edition of Barron's magazine as one of the world's 30 most respected CEOs. (March 27, 2007)
More than 700 educators spent March 23 at Cornell to participate in the third annual Professional Development Day, sponsored by Cornell, Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES and the Ithaca City School District. (March 26, 2007)
A Cornell researcher is working to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly by as much as 10 to 15 years. (March 26, 2007)
Two relatively inexpensive strategies -- self-coaching and anonymous feedback from subordinates -- can strengthen the lessons of classroom management training, says a new study by J. Bruce Tracey and Michael J. Tews. (March 26, 2007)
Cornell University researchers have come up with a simple, inexpensive way to measure the vibration of nanomechanical oscillators by 'tapping' with an atomic force microscope. (March 26, 2007)