Rebecca Quinn Morgan HE '60, who with her husband has endowed the deanship of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, will be given the inaugural Martha Van Rensselaer Vision Award by the Human Ecology Alumni Association on April 20. The award ceremony is a key event at the national celebration of the Cornell University Human Ecology Centennial at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City.
Cornell hopes to expand its renewable energy portfolio as it benefits from the NY-Sun initiative, a series of large-scale, solar energy projects expected to add about 67 megawatts of solar electricity to the state.
Bruce McCandliss, associate professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, is a 2007 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. (Dec. 5, 2007)
Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.
The Research Data Management Service Group helps researchers organize and document their data, find a place to keep it and deal with the data management requirements of funding agencies.
The 30th Cornell Fashion Collective runway show incorporates use of futuristic materials that detect heat and glow in the dark, April 12 in Barton Hall.