Germany's highest civilian award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Officer of the Cross of the Order of Merit), will be conferred on Klaus W. Beyenbach, Cornell professor of physiology.
Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honors 32 seniors and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.
Janice R. Lachance, deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, will be joined by other Clinton administration officials and representatives of labor unions representing federal workers in a visit to Cornell on Oct. 8, for a meeting of the National Partnership Council.
Juniors Jessie Comba, Katherine McEachern and Ryan Walter have won 2007-09 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. Sophomore Parbir Grewal and junior Anna Owczarczyk have received Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. (April 10, 2008)
Barbara Herrnstein Smith of Duke University will deliver a University Lecture at Cornell titled "Sewing Up the Mind: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology," Monday, Sept. 27, at 4:30 p.m.
Charles R. Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of GTE Corp., will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
The 176-space parking lot planned at the intersection of University Ave., Willard Way and Lake Street, on the site known as Redbud Woods, is part of Cornell's West Campus Residential Initiative (WCRI). The development of the WCRI began about five years ago, and from the beginning, addressing parking needs in the West Campus area was part of the initiative.
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Events on campus this week include playwright Lauren Feldman '01 at the Schwartz Center, former Black Panther Charlotte O'Neal, talks on poetry and Vietnam, and the 36th Festival of Black Gospel.
Former death row inmate Rolando Cruz has rescheduled his appearance at the Cornell Law School for Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Room G90 of Myron Taylor Hall.