Big Red tackle JC Tretter '13 is enduring grueling 12-hour days of training as he prepares to play in the Senior Bowl All-Star Game in Mobile, Ala., Jan. 26.
Effective June 1, Jason Locke became associate vice provost for enrollment, and Shawn Felton became director of undergraduate admissions. They had been serving in interim roles since last July.
Alan Paau, executive director of the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, is transitioning to an advisory role as vice provost for technology commercialization global initiatives Aug. 1. He will leave Cornell on Jan. 31, 2015.
The president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, visits campus Nov. 20-22. He will deliver a public lecture, “Iceland’s Clean Energy Economy – A Roadmap to Sustainability and Good Business,” Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium.
The university is implementing new search accountability oversight measures to ensure that every search attracts a diverse pool of candidates. The measures are part of a multilayered strategy for supporting faculty recruitment and retention.
University of Havana professor Emanuel Mora, who came to campus this summer to teach a course in biopsychology, is the first visiting professor from Cuba to teach at Cornell and return.
Vacancies remain for nonfaculty staff members in two of Cornell's Ithaca campus governance organizations, the Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Sept. 2, 2008)
In July, 14 students visited Cornell for an intensive one-week course, the Warrior-Scholar Project, designed to facilitate their transition from combat life to institutions of higher education.