The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York.
While much of the eastern United States digs out from the Blizzard of '96, the snow has stopped falling but snowfall records continue to fall and storm-related anecdotes pile up, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Alumni Michael W.N. Chiu, Glenn T. Dallas, Robert B. Goldfarb, Barbara Hirsch Kaplan, Grace E. Richardson and W. Barlow Ware have received Rhodes awards. (Oct. 9, 2007)
The IthaQatar Ambassadors program, a group established in 2008 to connect students on Cornell's Ithaca and Qatar campuses, is growing and planning for the future. (Aug. 10, 2009)
President David Skorton's first grand rounds lecture at Weill Cornell Medical College Jan. 18 broadly discussed the public service and outreach roles of academic health centers both within Cornell and the community at large. (Jan. 19, 2007)
Events this week include the LEGO Expo in Duffield Hall, a Science Cabaret on bread for locavores, folk music and guitar lessons, films, and a reception for new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum.
A Cornell mini-conference on climate change was designed to build bridges across disciplines and departments, so faculty and staff could learn what others are doing and collaborate.
Ithaca may be more than 200 miles from the fashion hub of New York City, but it has its own fashion savvy, with such subcultures as "American princesses," "hipsters" and "neohippies," each with its own style.
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