"Blacks and Jews in America: A Conversation" will be held April 18 at 5 p.m. in Milstein Hall auditorium, with the Rev. Kenneth Clarke and professor Ross Brann.
Cornell is hosting SUNY Oswego administrator and communication professor Kristen Eichhorn as an American Council on Education fellow, a national university leadership development initiative.
Three faculty members - development economist Chris Barrett, mechanical engineer Sidney Leibovich and medical mycologist Dr. Thomas Walsh - have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Program Work Team on Poverty and Economic Hardship met to brainstorm ways to eradicate poverty in upstate New York. In the United States, 40 percent of people will be poor at some point during their adult life, they said.
Cornell is launching its on-campus sesquicentennial festivities with flash and fanfare during Trustee-Council Annual Meeting/Homecoming weekend, Oct. 17-18.
A wide variety of local and Cornell goods and services go up for bid, Nov. 4, for an online auction to benefit the CARE Fund, which provides funding for Cornell faculty and staff who experience an emergency that has a financial impact on their lives.
Joseph Veverka, Cornell's James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, has received the Whipple Award for his 'outstanding contribution to the field of planetary science.' (Jan. 31, 2012)
Computer science professor Jon Kleinberg will receive the 2013 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, considered the highest for technical excellence in knowledge discovery and data mining, from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Peter Kareiva, Ph.D. '81, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, will deliver the 2013 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture, 'Overcoming Dogma and Prophecies of Doom to Save Nature,' April 22.
Cornell Police will conduct specialized traffic enforcement focusing on roadway violations committed by pedestrians, bicyclists, and skateboarders until Sept. 30. (Sept. 17, 2012)