With the transition to the Canvas Learning Management System complete, faculty and the Canvas team are to exploring advanced features and tools to further enhance student learning.
Shaoyi Jiang, Ph.D. ’93, has been named the first Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor at Cornell. Jiang’s wife, Qiuming Yu, Ph.D. ’95, also will join the Cornell faculty.
Results from a survey of Cornell faculty and staff are giving colleges and units a better understanding of how to make diversity and inclusion thrive on campus.
Laura Lewis, a former Cornell staff member who soon will serve on the Common Council for the City of Ithaca’s Fifth Ward, will open the 2018 Soup & Hope biweekly series of personal narratives Jan. 18, noon to 1 p.m., in Sage Chapel.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County will hold its 2017 annual meeting and local foods breakfast Dec. 5 from 8 to 10 a.m. at The Space @ GreenStar, 700 West Buffalo St. in Ithaca. The public is invited.
The new Cornell Appreciation Portal gives supervisors, faculty and staff an online venue for congratulating each other, recognizing a milestone or achievement, and showing their appreciation to one another.
In mid-December, as the fall semester drew to a close, the Center for Teaching Innovation hosted the inaugural Cornell “Thank a Professor” event in Mann Library, Duffield Hall and Willard Straight Hall.
Mark E. Lewis, director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, are the recipients of this year’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.