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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Harry Greene explains how to 'walk the Tree of Life'

A&S Communications

Biologist Harry Greene uses an active learning method, the "Tree of Life," to teach the traditional taxonomy many bio students dread.

Performing & Media Arts

Dance concert integrates video and live performance

Performing & Media Arts

When: March 23, 24 & 25, 7:30 p.m.Where: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

English

Art Is Not a Profit Industry. That's Why We Need the NEA

Poet Langston Hughes, courtesy Library of CongressJoanie Mackowski, associate professor of English, writes in this Time opinion piece that our country needs to support the National Endowment for the Arts not because of its financial benefits, though that's the argument some arts organizations are encouraging their constituents to use with members of Congress.

Outreach

Math professor mentors winner of science talent search

Cornell Chronicle

When 18-year-old Aaron Yeiser was awarded second place honors – and $175,000 – in the national Regeneron Science Talent Search, no one was prouder than his mentor Alex Townsend, assistant professor of mathematics.

Alumni visits

Enforcing Federal Law

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member and Cornell A&S alumna visits ILR.

Government

Government is excellent prep for rabbinic career, says Michaels '68

*//*-->*/James R. Michaels '68, a member of Cornell's 100th graduating class, always knew he wanted to be a rabbi. He dutifully chose a philosophy major when he entered Cornell but found that the department's emphasis then on linguistic evaluation wasn't a good fit.

Education Innovation

Course reveals Vietnam through lens of climate change

Cornell Chronicle

“Climate Change Awareness and Service Learning in the Mekong Delta” featured seven weeks of in-class preparation, two weeks in Vietnam, then another seven weeks back on campus.

History

Scarlet Fu brings Cornell devotion to financial journalism

Ezra Magazine

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Economics & Government

Alumna maps how to navigate South America

Ezra Magazine

Dana Bottazzo '03 has done her share of traveling. Raised in London and Kuwait, she attended school in Ithaca, worked for a law firm in Paris and Milan, and then fell in love with South America.

History and Government

Savitt '85 dreams the impossible, tries to make it come true

A&S Communications

*//*-->*/Had it not been for the beauty of Cornell and a memorable weekend back in 1980, this story about Kathy Savitt '85, chief marketing officer for Yahoo, might very well be appearing in a publication for Harvard alumni.