Events include a screening of “On the Basis of Sex” by Cornell Cinema, a free estate planning clinic, an exhibition of work by a student artist at the Seneca Place office building downtown, a panel discussion as part of the Cornell University Press sesquicentennial celebration, and a “Chats in the Stacks” book talk with English professor Daniel Schwarz.
Cornell classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. (Jan. 18, 2010)
Cornell oceanographer Charles Greene will give two presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 23-28 in Honolulu, on marine algae and tracking fish populations.
Laura Katharine Smith of Ashland, Ore., a rising junior at the School of Hotel Administration, her father and her grandparents, both Cornell alumni, died in an automobile accident in California June 3. (June 5, 2010)
Seeking to protect healthcare workers from the precarious nature of taking off soiled gloves when working with Ebola patients, Cornell students have developed a duplex solution to a complex problem: a double-layer system.
Nepalis affected by the April 2015 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people visited campus April 11-15 to meet members of the Cornell-Nepal Earthquake Recovery Partnership.
Jessica Rutkoski was one of five women presented with the Women in Triticum award at the the May 30-31 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia. (June 2, 2010)
Cornell's New York City footprint may soon grow larger with the addition of a new applied sciences research center and campus. The university plans to respond to a Request for Proposals for the project this summer.
A record 2,007 tickets were sold for Employee Celebration Day. Many of the ticket holders turned out for the women's ice hockey game against Yale before going to the community dinner. (Feb. 15, 2011)
Two changes will be made to the Time Away from Work policy for nonacademic staff: one in how sick, health and personal leave are recorded and one in using accrued vacation time.