Cornell will test its emergency notification systems at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. These systems include the sirens/public address system and voice and text messaging. (April 8, 2010)
Writer Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, will speak in Cornell's Bailey Hall April 29 at 6 p.m. Tickets are free from the Willard Straight Hall and Clinton House box offices. (April 7, 2010)
The Energy Materials Center at Cornell invited several speakers to give sessions on a wide range of topics dealing with the conference's theme, 'Oxides for Energy Applications.' (Aug. 13, 2010)
Cornell University experts predict that the 103rd dragon spawned on campus will emerge from its lair Thursday, March 18, and they have issued a dragon warning and road-closure alert. Vehicular access to central campus will be restricted from 12:30 to approximately 3:30 p.m. Buses could be rerouted or delayed when the dragon emerges from its lair in Rand Hall at approximately 1 p.m. The dragon will travel east on University Avenue, then south on East Avenue, then west on Campus Road. It will lumber through Ho Plaza and enter the Arts Quad, between Uris and Olin libraries, before proceeding to the south side of Rand Hall. (March 15, 2004)
Tal Rusak was one of two students in North America honored by the Computing Research Association for outstanding potential in computing research. (Feb. 4, 2009)
Carol Jean Buckley, a student services supervisor in Cornell University's Olin Library and member of the Cornell Savoyards, died at her home on June 24. She was 40.
Professor of service operations management Sherri Kimes is developing a project to "give students a virtual international experience” as Cornell's newest Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow.
Nina Bassuk, Cornell professor of horticulture, will be awarded the prestigious Scott Medal at the March 2008 annual meeting of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College. (Dec. 21, 2007)
Anthony Vidler, professor of art history and architecture and chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been nominated as dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University.