A musician whose career blossomed in Ithaca and who is a favorite of area audiences will be the featured performer for this year's Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series at Cornell University. David Linhart, a Cornell alumnus (B.S. '99 in agricultural and biological engineering) and the guitarist and lead vocalist with the well-known roots reggae band the Uplifters, will bring his acoustic-guitar driven music to Willard Straight Hall's Memorial Room on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. (April 5, 2002)
The Southeast Asia Program is working to assist about 50 ethnic minority refugees from Burma (also called Myanmar) now living in Ithaca and other Burmese who are resettling in upstate New York cities. (Dec. 13, 2007)
Just after noon on March 15, fourth-year medical students at Weill Cornell received good news: They would be doing their residency training at some of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country. (April 18, 2007)
Psychologist Joseph Mikels studies how emotion interfaces with such cognitive processes as working memory and selective attention, and he applies this to decision making in the elderly.
Cornell Professor Chen Jian won the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Documentary Research for the film 'Declassifed: Nixon in China.'
Richard Meier, Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate and recently named designer of Cornell University's future life science technology building, returns to the Cornell campus for his fourth visit as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, March 4-7. Meier will deliver a free public lecture titled "The New Museum" Wednesday, March 6, at 4:45 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. He will discuss the museums he has designed through his firm, Richard Meier & Partners. These include: The Getty Center (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and Museum for Decorative Arts (Frankfurt). No tickets are required for the lecture. (February 26, 2002)
Dr. Joseph Fins, professor of medicine in psychiatry and chief of the Medical Ethics Division at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will deliver a talk titled "Back to the Future: Cultures of Death and Dying in America," Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. in the Guerlac Room. of the Andrew Dickson White House on the Cornell campus. The keynote presentation inaugurates the Society for the Humanities at Cornell's inter-disciplinary colloquium, "Humanism at the Cross-Roads," a collaboration among faculty members at Cornell's Ithaca campus and the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. (February 17, 2004)
Lisa Staiano-Coico, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, has been named provost of Temple University, effective July 1. (March 23, 2007)
Peter Michalik, a 1997 graduate of Cornell, won a 1998 Jacob K. Javitz Fellowship in humanistic studies this spring. The award provides up to $15,000 per year for up to four years of graduate study.