The Sept. 27-28 symposium “Bridging the Divide: Machine Learning in Medicine,” held at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, brought together researchers and clinicians from Cornell’s Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine to discuss recent work and initiate collaborations in the field of machine learning in medicine.
Cornell Plantations kicks off its fall lecture series Aug. 24 with a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning beat poet, conservationist and scholar Gary Snyder at 5:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium.
Two authors and nationally known experts on race and racial issues, F. Michael Higginbotham and Beverly Tatum, are coming to campus for free public talks Sept. 12-13.
Cornell will honor Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock, renowned Chinese scholar Hu Shih and the Cayuga Nation with names for new North Campus residence hall buildings.
Instructors of the six major national languages of Southeast Asia – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese – will gather at Cornell Sept. 8-10 for the Southeast Asian Language Teaching: New Directions Conference.
Cornell events in June include a special Reunion exhibition at the Johnson Museum; programs at Cornell Botanic Gardens and a free concert on the Arts Quad.
Paul Fleming, professor of German studies and comparative literature, will become the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities when Timothy Murray’s term ends on June 30, 2017.