With so few available academic jobs, Cornell will start a NIH-funded pilot program to help train life sciences graduate students and postdocs for nonacademic positions. A kickoff event is March 18.
In honor of the inauguration of the 11th president of Cornell University, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Cornell University Library will feature three special exhibits on campus, together titled "Legacy of Leadership: Cornell's Eleven Presidents." The exhibits, on display in the university's Olin, Kroch and Uris libraries from Oct. 13 through the end of the fall semester, will highlight the achievements of each of Cornell's presidents, through historical letters, documents and photographs. The displays also will include short histories of each Cornell inauguration ceremony. (October 7, 2003)
McGraw Hall will undergo major renovations beginning this month. The roof work won't begin until after Commencement and should be completed by fall semester. (April 4, 2011)
Events on campus this week include an earthquake vigil; filmmakers the Quay Brothers; Bound for Glory; Brave New Works ensemble; fourth annual LEGO Expo and an entrepreneurship lecture for scientists. (Jan. 21, 2010)
Kathy Savitt ’85, chief marketing officer at Yahoo!, will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit NYC Oct. 11, hosted by Entrepreneurship@Cornell.
Mayor Svante Myrick delivered a keynote address at the the annual Student United Way Leadership Retreat in Alexandria, Va., and Cornell Student United Way co-chairs Christine Roberti and Samuel Coleman attended a briefing with White House officials.
The initiative's programs feature a full range of innovative labor relations and arbitration services such as labor-management training and consulting, and arbitration case administration. (June 30, 2006)
The centennial year for Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will come to a close Friday, April 29, with "The Golden Age of Innovation" -- a symposium featuring major contributors to human health, nutrition and education.
More than 650 scientists, physicians and other health care practitioners gathered in Doha for the XVII International DALM Symposium on Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome, March 14-16. (March 16, 2011)
Attention to every detail was a behind-the-scenes theme at the Hotel Ezra Cornell, April 12-15. The more salient theme this year, however, was sustainability through innovation. (April 17, 2007)