The deadline for completing the Cornell Employee Survey is Nov. 18. The survey, done at the request of the Employee Assembly, was announced by President David Skorton Oct. 24.
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.
Success did not come easy to Sonia Sotomayor. She knows how much pain there is in life. But hard work, a determination to fight for her beliefs and an “innate optimism” helped propel her from a childhood in a Bronx housing project to her role as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Employees covered by an endowed health plan will have enhanced coverage for their international travel on university business, effective July 1, through Aetna International, at no extra cost.
Events this week include a conference for international dramatists, jazz and big band swing, new science fiction films at Cornell Cinema, a talk on building sustainable communities and a reading by MFA writers.
Ritch Savin-Williams, professor emeritus of developmental psychology, has written the new book "Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay," with stories of 'proud, popular' men.
Sustainability improvements, including new climate control technology, at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art have cut overall energy usage by 40 percent.
Alex Bancroft, 9, suffers from Chron's disease but has found answers from Weill Cornell Medicine pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Thomas Ciecierega, an associate professor of pediatrics.