Cornell’s president-elect, Elizabeth Garrett, spoke to the Chronicle Oct. 7 and answered questions on topics from engaged learning and the challenges facing higher education to what’s on her Kindle.
Events this week include a reading by poet Luis Urrea, a museum talk on surrealism and magic, student-designed wearable art and ticket sales for the Fall Employee Celebration.
Cornell is launching its on-campus sesquicentennial festivities with flash and fanfare during Trustee-Council Annual Meeting/Homecoming weekend, Oct. 17-18.
Nominations are being sought from among the faculty for positions as house deans and professors at two West Campus houses for terms beginning in July 2016.
Eric Betzig, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88, and William Moerner, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, have shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for groundbreaking achievements in optical microscopy.
