Editors' picks for the week of March 6 include a forum on water in the Mediterranean, a conference on transgender rhetoric, a celebrity chef visit and a performance by the iO String Quartet. (March 5, 2009)
Cornell has received a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and related social sciences. The grant, for use over approximately five years, will help fuel ongoing academic initiatives in the humanities at Cornell.
In the study, 20 percent of women and 9 percent of men identified themselves as 'mostly heterosexual,' a finding that supports using a more nuanced 5-point scale for depicting sexual orientation.
Events on campus this week include sesquicentennial exhibitions of fossils, plaster casts and a variety of objects, documents and artifacts tied to Cornell's history; and Argentinian tango practice.
Hospital executive Reginald M. Ballantyne III, MBA '67, discussed his ideas for health care reform at the Sloan Program in Health Administration's alumni weekend May 4.
Wearing his full academic regalia, President David J. Skorton offered greetings April 17 at the inauguration of Ithaca College's new president, Thomas Rochon. (April 20, 2009)
The 20th annual Share the Warmth campaign will run through Dec. 10. boxes have been distributed across Cornell and throughout Ithaca for donations of winter clothing and other cold-weather articles. (Nov. 15, 2012)