For the first time in 30 years, Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will exhibit parts of the university's extensive collection of James Joyce letters, manuscripts and books, considered the richest in the world on the Irish writer's early life and career. The exhibit, "From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection," will be on view from Thursday, June 9, through Oct. 12 in the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library.
When Anisa Draboo receives her master's degree in International Development from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning on May 29, she will be the first Cornell University graduate among a new group of dedicated international students studying ways to make the most troubled areas of the world more livable. The students in the group know some of the world's worst problems firsthand -- and they have an extra dose of motivation to find the solutions.
James Houck, Cornell's Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for leading the successful development of the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph. The spectrograph, the largest of the three instruments on the orbiting space telescope, has been providing scientists with a new perspective since the observatory's launch in August 2003.
Every spring since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. The nine Tradition fellows who have been honored this year for their community service and leadership efforts will use their monetary awards to benefit others.
Two Cornell undergraduate students have been recognized by the New York State Assembly as 2005 New York State Assembly Distinguished Interns, after participating in the university's Capital Semester program in Albany this spring.
Are you a weather junkie? Do you want to keep up with the latest computer security updates? Do you routinely check your stock quotes throughout the day? If you are one of the 37,000 people who have used uPortal.Cornell to keep these and other services on your computer screen and to navigate Cornell's Web space and the Internet at large, you will have discovered that a new version appeared May 22.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees has awarded named professorships to five faculty members in the College of Veterinary Medicine. They include three new James Law Professorships, an Alfred H. Caspary Professorship and a John Olin Professorship.
Robert L. Johnson is better known to his friends and co-workers as "Bob," but he's "the mud man" to his wife on some days when returning home from work as Cornell's first -- and so far only -- manager of the university's Research Ponds Facility. Arriving at Cornell in 1961 as an undergraduate student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Johnson has been on campus ever since. Johnson recently earned two awards.
NEW YORK -- An 18-month-old girl was the first in the New York City area to receive a titanium rib prosthesis to correct a severe form of congenital curvature -- or scoliosis -- of her spine that constricts the lung cavity.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca, Thursday, May 26, through Sunday, May 29, during the university's Commencement weekend. The full board will meet from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Friday, May 27, in Room 196 in the Beck Center of Statler Hall and again Saturday, May 28, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Sage Hall on the Cornell campus.