Events this week include Cornell Orchards' Apple Spectacular, a student-made film reflecting on service in Thailand; the Cornell Orchestras playing jazz with special guests; MFA students reading poetry and fiction; and lectures on law and technology, global child welfare and the Middle East.
Will Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, whose innovations may allow for ample electricity and for detecting trace amounts of explosives, has received a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
College of Human Ecology legend Urie Bronfenbrenner, who taught at Cornell for 50 years and died in 2005, was the subject of a symposium on campus Sept. 18.
A new Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine service at Cornell University Hospital for Animals will help canine athletes, non-athletic dogs and cats recover from injury through interdisciplinary medical techniques.
Events on campus this week include a 'Big Lebowski' party and screening; geeks gathering for CornellCon; a lecture on boosting political knowledge and climate change strategies for New York farmers.
Cornell President David Skorton and his wife, Robin Davisson, professor of biomedical sciences, spent the weekend dining with students, watching ping-pong and even making a run to the Hot Truck. (April 7, 2009)
Event this week include book talks on aging and emotions and artist Cy Twombley's inspirations; Mac Benford on "Bound for Glory"; "Sonic Sea" at Cornell Cinema; and plays written "After Orlando."
Faculty members Nina Bassuk, Marie Caudill and Rajit Manohar have been named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows for their inspiring teaching of undergraduates, President David Skorton announced.
How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.