Nita L. Irby, D.V.M., has been named director of Student Support Services at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. Announcing the appointment is acting Dean Donald F. Smith.
Robert Stewart Smith, professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, has been named acting dean of the school. The appointment was effective Jan. 16.
One of the most bizarre and baffling cat behaviors, fabric-eating, is the subject of a new study at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where nearby cats are sought for medical trials.
Strengthening its outreach commitment to the local and statewide economies, Cornell has consolidated the economic-development functions of four of its technology-access units into a new Cornell Office of Economic Development.
David Lelyveld, a historian of South Asia and Islam, has been named executive director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell.
Julia E. Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, will explore Plato's contribution to ethical thought, the different interpretations of his work from antiquity to the present and the enduring interest in his moral philosophy in this year's Townsend Lectures in Classics.
An address by Ellen Hart Pe&241;a, wife of United States Secretary of Transportation Federico Pe–a, will highlight activities during Health Awareness Week on the Cornell campus, Feb. 10 through Feb. 14.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to learn about the upper atmosphere. Just ask someone who is. A Cornell rocket scientist, in cooperation with NASA and a local science museum, will be available online via the Internet to "chat" live.
Jennie McGraw, a Dryden socialite in the 1800s whose charitable contributions gave Cornell its chimes and Dryden its library, is the subject of a new musical, Jennie's Will.