Ray Jayawardhana shared his enthusiasm for astronomy’s “extraordinary age of discovery” with Cornell’s Trustee Council in a keynote address at its Annual Meeting Nov. 2.
The Cornell Council for the Arts is accepting applications from individual artists and programs and departments at Cornell for projects to be presented in 2014-15. The application deadline is Feb. 28.
Cornell administrators and project leaders gave updates and took questions Aug. 15 on the university’s North Campus Residential Expansion, which received final site plan approval in late June.
Rohit Verma, dean of external relations at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, has been named founding provost of Vin University in Hanoi, Vietnam. His three-year appointment is effective July 1.
Cornell has joined more than 560 institutions of higher education in signing a letter to President Donald Trump March 16 asking that he support noncitizen students who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program status.
Dexter Kozen, the Joseph Newton Pew Jr. Professor in Engineering, is the 2016 recipient of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATSC) Award.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts presents the English-language premiere of “Hamlet Wakes Up Late,” a political satire by renowned Syrian playwright Mamduh Adwan, Nov. 10-18 at the Schwartz Center.
Amanda Rodewald, professor of natural resources, spoke about the importance of the farm bill to conservation outcomes on a panel in Washington, D.C., May 11.