Trustees meet in NYC: The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan today, April 19, at 11:30 a.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings and an update on the State University of New York (SUNY) budget.
Museum awarded: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded $25,000 to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell for its popular Objects and Their Makers: New Insights (OMNI) educational kits for area schools. The program introduces schoolchildren and their teachers to the arts of other cultures, including those of China, Africa, South America and Japan. "These kits go to schools throughout the Southern Tier every year, and thousands of schoolchildren visit the museum as part of the program," said Franklin Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Johnson Museum. "Through OMNI, these schoolchildren are introduced to distant cultures through fascinating and engaging activities." More than 4,000 schoolchildren in 16 area school districts participate in OMNI each year. The program also is supported with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.
CorporateTime off for weekend: CorporateTime, the university's electronic calendar service, will be unavailable from 8 p.m. Friday, April 20, through 6 a.m. Monday, April 23, while Cornell Information Technologies upgrades the server software. During the upgrade, faculty and staff will not be able to access the calendar server. The server is being upgraded in anticipation of the release in late spring of new CorporateTime software for users. That software will let users search calendars for text and access their calendars via the web. For more information about CorporateTime, see http://www.cit.cornell.edu/calendar/.
Sleepout against homelessness: This Saturday, April 21, the Cornell Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) will host an annual event, The Sleepout Against Homelessness, on campus. The goal of the event is to promote awareness about homelessness by students, faculty, administrators and the larger Ithaca community and to express solidarity with homeless people around the world. The Cornell Coalition for the Homeless, a sponsored project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy (CRESP), is a network of student and community activists. The Coalition's work includes 1) direct service, 2) education and awareness, 3) fundraising and 4) social reform. The day is divided into smaller segments; people can choose which events to participate in:
History prize announcement: The Messenger Chalmers Graduate Prize, of $750, will be awarded to the thesis by a graduate student "giving evidence of the best research and most fruitful thought in the field of human progress and the evolution of civilization during some period in human history or during human history as whole," announces the prize committee. Entries, including current address and phone number, must be submitted on or before April 30 to Professor Stuart Blumin, Department of History, 450 McGraw Hall.
Chefs at culinary institute: For Black History Month, Cornell Dining's Executive Chef John Kimbrough and Sous Chef Kevin Mitchell demonstrated upscale Southern cuisine for the Black Culinarian Society at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Feb 1 of this year. The Black Culinarian Society was founded by Kimbrough and a few other students in 1988 to help support and reach out to minority students at the culinary institute. Kimbrough and Mitchell took Afro-centric, Southern home cookin' basics to a high-end restaurant style. Instead of the standard collard greens, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, the chefs took the dinner upscale with a menu consisting of roast pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon and sage with a ham demi-glace, accompanied by a grits-and-cheddar soufflé and a garden vegetable succotash. Kimbrough interacted well with the students and answered all of their questions, leaving them enlightened about this important part of African-American history.
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