The Council of Graduate Schools has chosen Cornell as a demonstration school for a project to develop programs to train future faculty and establish best practices in assessing student learning.
Buhrman, senior vice provost for research, will take on the additional, newly created post of vice president for technology transfer, intellectual property and research policy. (April 28, 2011)
Carl E. Wieman, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, will discuss a new form of matter that occurs at record cold temperatures in a nontechnical talk on the Cornell University campus Oct. 9. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be given at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall. Wieman, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, will be presenting the second of his two Bethe Lectures at Cornell. (October 2, 2002)
Nearly 50 high school physics teachers gathered at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education Institute for Physics Teachers workshop Oct. 27. (Nov. 1, 2012)
Cornell's Graduate Program in Medieval Studies appoints no faculty of its own. Yet faculty from 13 departments within the College of Arts and Sciences choose, out of love, to devote their time and energy to the program and its extremely diverse and dedicated group of students.
Sage Wednesdays, a new program of Cornell United Religious Work, will be held weekly from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. and will replace Sage Chapel Sunday afternoon vesper services. (Aug. 26, 2008)
Associate Dean Stanley Bowman has been named acting dean of the college. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1973, Bowman will serve as dean until a new dean is appointed.