The Engaged Learning + Research center hosted an open house April 19 to show off renovated offices; afterward, the Service-Learning Showcase featured students engaged in service-learning projects.
The second in a series of perspectives articles on sexual violence prevention and response, this interview discusses the process of reporting and responding to a report of sexual assault.
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)
A conference Oct. 22 on campus will draw alumni back to talk about the changing role of liberal arts majors in the job market. It is planned by students for students. (Oct. 13, 2011)
Once again AARP has placed Cornell on its list of 'Best Employers for Workers Over 50,' and Working Mother magazine named CU to its '100 Best Companies' for working mothers. (Sept. 25, 2007)
Events this week include the Mayfest chamber music festival, a celebration of Robert Moog in Trumansburg, a Cornell Cinema terrace screenings survey, and an exhibit of marine invertebrates in glass.
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.
Cornell has accepted the invitation to join an elite national organization that aims to produce better university teachers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. (Oct. 6, 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 University has joined Say Yes to Education Inc., a national nonprofit organization that helps children from urban school districts attend, and pay for, college.