Ken Grouf '93, founder and co-executive director of City Year New York, an Americorps program, will speak at Cornell about how young people can change the world.
Cornell will be one of four institutions participating in the "Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid," a five-year National Science Foundation project to design.
Temple Grandin is one of the few experts on animal welfare and is a Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, and she will make her first visit to campus in February 2006.
Issa Shivji, director of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will speak Sept. 15 and 16.
Displaced Tulane students came together for a whirlwind orientation meeting at Cornell Sept. 8, just a day and a half after most arrived in Ithaca after evacuating their New Orleans campus.
Across campus, members of the Cornell community are raising money to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Across the country, Cornell alumni are doing the same.
When the $140 million New Life Sciences Technology Building (LSTB) opens in 2007, 11,000 square feet on two floors will be devoted to a center designed to foster start-up companies.
Mary Jo Dudley has been named director of the Cornell Migrant Program and a senior extension associate in the Department of Development Sociology in CALS.