Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced June 19.
Most parents -- and not a few teachers -- think computer games are a waste of time. David Schwartz, Cornell assistant professor of computer science, thinks they can be a powerful teaching tool -- especially if you get students interested in creating their own. So Schwartz, aided by Rajmohan Rajagopalan, Cornell instructor in computer science, and Rama Hoetzlein, who graduated from Cornell in 2001 with a dual major in computer science and fine art, is teaching an experimental course in computer game design. The course is part of an overall plan Schwartz calls the Computer Game Design Initiative. He hopes that game design eventually can become a tool to interest high school and elementary school students in science and technology, while teaching a little physics, writing and other skills along the way. (December 2, 2003)
Cornell University will be part of a nationwide initiative to develop long-term solutions to computer security problems, the National Science Foundation has announced. The NSF expects to provide almost $19 million in funding for the program over five years, with about $3 million coming to Cornell.
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
Cornell has a prominent share in two Nobel prizes announced this week. Roderick MacKinnon, a visiting researcher at Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Robert Engle, a Cornell graduate, M.S., physics, '66, Ph.D., economics, '69, was co-winner of the Nobel in economics. A total of 29 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or alumni. (October 09, 2003)
"Human Natures: Genes, Culture and the Human Prospect" is the topic for Stanford University biologist Paul R. Ehrlich in a public lecture Wednesday, April 25, at 4:45 p.m. in Cornell's Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.
Events this week include a comparative literature forum, an annual fashion show, 'The Vagina Monologues,' folk concerts and a Bronfenbrenner series lecture.
In celebration of the centennial of the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell, the exhibition "From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?" shows the intellectual history of home economics.
This week's events include a performance by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, music and dance at the Locally Grown Dance Festival, and dinner with Top Chef Jimmy Bradley at the Hotel School's Guest Chefs Series.
Experts with a wide variety of perspectives at an April 1-2 conference at Cornell will attempt to answer the question: Who should rightfully profit from biotechnology's exploitation of the "intellectual property" of nature?