On Dec. 12, officials from Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Nature Conservancy and other agencies held a press conference at a hunting lodge outside of Brinkley, Ark., to announce that a new search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker was now in full swing. (December 13, 2005)
The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows, and it re-elected three at-large members, one member from the field of labor and three fellows. Board members also welcomed two new alumni-elected trustees, one new faculty-elected trustee and one new student-elected trustee.
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, one of the key architects of a radically changing NATO, will give a free and public lecture titled "A New NATO, A New Europe" at Cornell on April 24.
The video and sound engineers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library - billed as the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video - are in the process of digitizing their entire collection.
Sol M. Gruner, a Princeton University physicist, has been appointed director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) at Cornell, effective Sept. 1.
An exhibit of archival materials related to the Vietnam War as well as talks, films and a conference for teachers sponsored by the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell is being held Nov. 10 and 11. (November 9, 2005)
Beginning on Monday, June 8, Tower Road, a main thoroughfare of the Cornell University campus, will become the site of several major construction projects.
Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings will be heading to China Nov. 14 for a four-day trip to Beijing. He plans to sign an official partnership agreement with Peking University (formalizing Cornell's newest academic major, China and Asia-Pacific studies), deliver a keynote address at the 2005 Beijing Forum and participate in an engineering workshop with Tsinghua University. (November 07, 2005)
One of the most bizarre and baffling cat behaviors, fabric-eating, is the subject of a new study at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where nearby cats are sought for medical trials.
Artists, educators and authors will gather on the Cornell next month for a public symposium to discuss the teaching of creativity and the presence and import of the arts and artistic intelligence across the disciplines of the university.