Robert L. Harris Jr., Cornell University vice provost for diversity and faculty development and associate professor of African-American history in the university's Africana Studies and Research Center, has been awarded the 2003 Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion for distinguished work in the field of African-American life and history. Harris received the honor during the 88th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Milwaukee in September. The Woodson award is presented annually to a scholar whose career is distinguished through at least a decade of research, writing and activism in the field of African-American life and history. ASALH, founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1915, inaugurated the Woodson Scholars Medallion in 1993. (October 10, 2003)
'Shaping Science and Technology Policy,' co-edited by Daniel Sarewitz, Ph.D. '86,brings together emerging scholars to investigate current issues in science and technology policy. (May 8, 2007)
Ramaswami Balasubramaniam, founder of a leading Indian nonprofit development organization, visited campus Sept. 27 to encourage students to participate in global service learning. (Oct. 1, 2012)
With some 3,000 students taking chemistry each semester, it's a major challenge to get them scheduled into labs with maximums of 22 individuals, to keep the labs safe. (Sept. 15, 2011)
Cornell officials have announced two key staff appointments: Lynette Chappell-Williams has been named director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), and Mary Beth Grant has been named judicial administrator (JA).
Cornell Plantations and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell have created a special garden that displays genetic diversity from bitter to sweet by tracing the history and development of the tomato. It is open to the public at Plantations' Pounder Heritage Vegetable Garden.
Events on campus include "Walking with 'Trane" at the Schwartz Center, SPARK Talks by emerging scholars, a new teen film on Korean identity and talks on game design and endangered foods.
To address inequality and the environmental crisis facing the world today people should pull together rather than compete against each other for individual gain, two faculty members urged in a Feb. 28 lecture.