Events this week include student art exhibits, a conference on exile, projects from a healing plants course, a veterans' resource fair and the return of the Internet Cat Video Festival.
The archives of The Atlantic Philanthropies, among the world’s largest and most influential foundations, will be housed permanently at Cornell. The archives document roughly $8 billion in Atlantic grants over three decades.
Researchers have discovered a set of common changes in the brain upon learning a new skill. They have essentially detected a neural marker for the reorganization the brain undergoes as a person become proficient at a task.
Three new North Campus faculty-in-residence – Sahara Byrne, Christopher Umbach and Maria Fernandez – have developed programs for first-year students in their residence halls designed to encourage students' intellectual engagement in their daily lives.
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)
What are good strategies to raise awareness in the workplace about diversity and persons with disabilities? What are reasonable accommodations to make for individuals with disabilities? What are the issues when considering the hiring of a person with cognitive or psychiatric disabilities?
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)
For the first time, fiber science students and faculty joined the class that spent two weeks in India recently. The textile students toured textile and apparel production facilities. (Jan. 31, 2011)
Cornell AAP announces twelve incoming faculty in the departments of architecture, art, and planning, including one who will take on the role of department chair in art.