Martha P. Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has received the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for career achievement, from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Kerry Sweeney, vice president of participant marketing from Fidelity Investments, will discuss what women need to know to invest wisely, Sept. 20, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at G10 Biotechnology Building.
University Counsel Madelyn F. Wessel has announced plans to retire from Cornell, effective at the end of June 2021. The university in the coming weeks will launch a national search to select a successor.
Cornell community members who do not have access to an estate planning attorney and meet certain income eligibility guidelines can work with Cornell Law School students in the spring of 2018 and receive a basic estate plan free of charge.
CU Women Lead will hold its next meeting Dec. 5, noon-1 p.m., at 142 Goldwin Smith Hall. All Cornell women administrators, faculty and staff are invited; bring your lunch.
McMullen, an expert in campus and public health with more than a decade of experience leading university health programs, will join Cornell to oversee its student health services, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
Dick Archer, associate professor of theater and technical director for the Department of Performing and Media Arts for 40 years, died Sept. 14. He was 71.
President Martha E. Pollack and Kavita Bala, dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, talked about the future of the college at Cornell Silicon Valley 21, held virtually March 30.