Max J. Pfeffer, professor of rural sociology at Cornell, has been named associate director of the university's Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca.
Arun Gandhi, founder of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, will be the keynote speaker at the eighth annual Cornell Tradition Convocation, March 7.
The fifth annual Educator Professional Development Day and its 110 workshop offerings attracted some 1,200 teachers from the Ithaca, Dryden and Lansing school districts. (March 24, 2009)
Three experts discussed how prepared the United States is for bioterrorism at a panel discussion hosted by Cornell in Washington, D.C., March 22. (March 28, 2012)
The annual College Sustainability Report Card lists Cornell as one of about two dozen 'Campus Sustainability Leaders,' but faults the university for not making its investment decisions public. (Feb. 7, 2007)
A workshop, 'Faculty Orientation to Research Administration and Support,' will inform new faculty members on resources available and the rules and regulations they must observe. (Sept. 21, 2011)
The Rev. Kenneth I. Clarke, formerly director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University, has been named director of Cornell United Religious Work (CURW).
Ben Wie '13, a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, supervised an animal behavior research team this past summer. The team looked at chemicals in mice brains. (Sept. 14, 2012)
Cornell Professors Itai Cohen, physics, and Bruce Lewenstein, science communication, discussed the excitement and challenges of the future of nanotechnology at the Science Cabaret downtown. (Sept. 16, 2011)
Cornell Professor Ross Brann described how Islam enriched Judaism, speaking at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City March 15 at an event sponsored by Cornell Hillel. (March 20, 2012)