Events this week include the Banff Mountain Film Festival, better botanical images through technology, Darwin Days, an Ai Weiwei documentary on refugees and migration, and a classic Yiddish tale in music and dance.
Four members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are among 348 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year. The four are Donald Campbell, professor of astronomy; David Grusky, professor of sociology; David Hammer, the J. Carleton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering, and Ray Wu, professor of molecular biology and genetics. (October 31, 2003)
Iconic hip-hop DJ Rich Medina '92 will teach Cornell Adult University's first-ever class on hip-hop, July 10-16. His real-life experience in the hip-hop community will enrich the class, he said.
Experts affiliated with a new institute at Cornell University will closely examine a radically evolving social institution -- the modern family, with a special focus on marriage and fatherhood. The Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS), established earlier this year at Cornell, has chosen "The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts and the Life Course of Children" as its first interdisciplinary theme for the period 2004-07. Some of the questions that will be studied include: How do race, ethnicity and social class influence marriage and fatherhood? How has the meaning of marriage and sexual partnerships changed over the past 30 years, and how do these changes affect children? What factors influence the timing of fatherhood? What determines responsible fathering? How do the behaviors of non-human animals inform issues regarding marriage and fatherhood? (June 30, 2004)
Cornell is offering free credit protection to 2,500 students and alumni after the discovery that a computer containing their personal information was infected with malicious software. (June 25, 2008)
The Curriculum Review Committee in the College of Arts and Sciences on March 7 released a draft Arts and Sciences curriculum proposal organized around modes of inquiry rather than topical content.
The School of Hotel Administration honored the Mariani family, founders of U.S. importer Banfi Vintners, and entrepreneur Sandy Solmon June 3 in New York City.
In a Nov. 22 tour of the Food and Finance High School, a partner school with Cornell, Christine Quinn, speaker of the New York City Council, toured the aquaponics lab and rooftop garden. (Nov. 24, 2010)