CALS Dean Kathryn Boor's lecture celebrating Cornell Cooperative Extension's centennial focused on the importance of science in everyday life and CCE's role in engaging people of all ages in its application.
Twenty-eight teen-agers associated with the New York City agency Boys Harbor will attend Cornell's Summer College, from June 22 to Aug. 6, on scholarship support from an anonymous donor. Six students from Central Park East High School and University Heights (Bronx) High School in New York also are coming to Summer College with scholarship support from the Uris Foundation.
Events on campus this week include Jewish refugee songs, a panel on big money in politics, a talk on racial justice, and alumni filmmakers Will Gluck '93 and Ryan Silbert '02.
The life of women's rights advocate Betty Friedan is being celebrated at Cornell on Monday, April 24, at 5 p.m. in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Conference Center, Room 423.
Gener, senior editor of American Theatre, is the winner of the 2007-08 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, an honor administered annually by Cornell's Department of English. (Feb. 4, 2009)
Lazarus Lynch of NYC's Food and Finance High School, a Cornell partner school, is the first New York 4-H student to present at the Global Youth Institute hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation. (Dec. 3, 2010)
Results of a universitywide staff survey, faculty accomplishments and parting thoughts from the outgoing dean of the faculty were highlights of the open session of the board of trustees meeting, May 25.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan Thursday, April 10, at 2 p.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings and an update on the State University of New York (SUNY) budget. (April 04, 2003)
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar enrolled its largest medical class to date and has added a third year to its two-year premedical program for students who enroll in August 2010 or later. (Sept. 21, 2009)
Rebecca Stoltzfus, M.S. '88, Ph.D. '92, professor of nutritional science and director of the Global Health Program minor, has been named the Provost's Fellow for Public Engagement.