Cornell University Library has acquired the Maeda Collection, the personal library of Japanese literary scholar and critic Maeda Ai. The acquisition was made possible by some $400,000 in gifts from Cornell alumni, friends, faculty and faculty emeriti.
Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Awards Convocation on May 1. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in Lecture Room D in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell Plantations gardeners are crediting a mild winter for this spring's spectacular bloom of rhododendrons, including more than 300 specimens on display at Comstock Knoll.
John O. McClain, professor of production and quantitative analysis at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named the president of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.
The Cascadilla Gorge Trail that links downtown Ithaca with the Cornell campus by way of the Collegetown business district has been opened for the season by Cornell Plantations.
The Cornell Tradition program at Cornell has honored 12 seniors for their outstanding demonstration of the program's values of work, service and scholarship, with $2,500 awards.
The hotter, the better, when it comes to spices, says Paul W. Sherman, a Cornell neurobiology professor who will speak at the annual herb festival, Saturday, June 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cornell Plantations.
"My children have very little idea of what is behind these and other marvelous inventions, which they see as so commonplace. This book is to help them appreciate and wonder at the material nature of our world.
Many people are unaware of the hardships suffered by families in the bottom rungs of society because conventional economic barometers paint rosy economic pictures that mask their plight, says a national authority on child welfare. Child welfare expert says economic indicators hide the multiple stresses faced by poor children in America.