Laura Spitz, J.S.D. '05, vice provost for international affairs, oversees Global Cornell, a university initiative aimed at strengthening Cornell's international dimension, as well as Cornell Abroad, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell University Press.
Susan Merkel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, is leading an effort to introduce new microbiology curricula nationwide. (July 13, 2011)
Events on campus this week include a Biotech Open House, yoga at the Johnson Museum, and lectures exploring mycology history at Cornell and hip-hop culture.
The Rev. Robert Smith, the Robert R. Colbert Sr. '48 Catholic Chaplain at Cornell, offers a perspectives piece on the the upcoming Colbert Symposia series. (Sept. 11, 2009)
Showcasing 36 student organizations of Asian heritage, Asia Night 2007 featured Thai and Indian cuisine and live entertainment, April 28, in Barton Hall. (April 30, 2007)
Helene Dillard, Cornell professor of plant pathology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, has been appointed to a second ferm as director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. (Oct. 4, 2007)
A campus organization at Cornell University that promotes and celebrates the multi-racial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities, and Nationalities Discussion) and its founder and president, Cornell senior Tamika Lewis, will be presented with the eighth-annual Perkins Prize, including an award of $5,000, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings during a ceremony Tuesday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus. (April 3, 2002)
Cornell University and the American Community Gardening Association are offering for sale the Garden Mosaics Kit, which includes an award-winning interactive DVD and program manual for educators, a poster and many other science…
Beta Mannix, director of the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) at Cornell University, hopes the institute will bring social scientists together on campus and attract more top-flight people to the university
Professors Anthony Ingraffea and Susan Christopherson cited science and statistics while sharing their expertise on the controversial topic with a room full of journalists June 25.