With completion of construction on West Campus, the Hasbrouck apartment complex is back to housing only graduate students, families, visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows. (Sept. 2, 2008)
Ruth Schwartz, professor emerita in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, died Sept. 19 as the result of a motor vehicle accident. She was 87. Funeral services were held Sept. 24. (Sept. 27, 2012)
V.P. Elmira Mangum said the revised guidelines provide units with assistance in determining how to proceed with capital projects and clear direction on funding requirements before a project can go forward. (Sept. 26, 2012)
Chemistry's Hector Abruna was chosen to present the 2010 S.C. Lind Lectures by the American Chemical Society of East Tennessee. He is also the 2011 recipient of the Faraday Medal. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Events this week include Harry Potter Night in Risley Hall; Our Place in Space on the Arts Quad, celebrating aerospace engineering and astronomy; Dairy Day at Stocking Hall; a debate on North Korea and a lecture with piano accompaniment on music, math and mortality.
Anxiety, avoidance and a heightened response to stress can be transmitted from mother to child by multiple nongenetic mechanisms, a new study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine shows.
Holocaust survivor Marianne Willems-Hendrix endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Cornell despite never having attended the university. It encourages study of Jewish women. (Sept. 24, 2012)