Luis M. Schang will become director of the Baker Institute for Animal Health and the Cornell Feline Health Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine in September.
About 2,400 staff, faculty, retirees and their families attended the 2014 winter Employee Celebration, Jan. 25, which included dinner and athletic events.
Palestinian-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, who writes in Hebrew, has a hit Israeli TV series and several novels to his credit. He will speak at Cornell on "The Foreign Mother Tongue" on March 25.
Cornell has extended its early decision admissions and financial aid deadline by one week, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8, in response to technical problems applicants have experienced with a new version of the Common Application.
Events this week include Ag Day and Spring Fest sustainability activities on the Ag Quad; comics and pop culture; Pedal for Pets; a public lecture on civil society and public protest; and locally made films.
Famed jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis will visit Cornell in his role as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, for classes, workshops and joining student musicians in a free concert in Bailey Hall March 28.
Professor of English Jane Juffer examines the effects of Latino migration to small towns in her new book, "Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion and Migration in the U.S. Midwest."