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What's Up with Ezra? October 16-18 was Homecoming Weekend and a good time was had by all who attended in spite of some unseasonal cold weather and a football loss to Fordham. (See photographs below.)
The Ithaca campus faced the threat of a severe swine flu epidemic soon after classes started in late August when over 700 students were diagnosed with probable H1N1 influenza. Sadly student Warren Schor '11 died from complications to the H1N1 virus. Affected students were advised to take a week off and some professors asked students showing flu symptoms to leave class. Students reacted bravely against the crisis. The Inter-Fraternity Council banned parties for a week and volunteers from the Emergency Medical Serviced launched a "Got Soap?" campaign distributing soap and flu information around campus. Students were urged to "Beat the flu," "Stay healthy," and "Take some soap - it smells freaking good." The University administrative services donated over 1500 shirts with the "Got soap?" logo.
We congratulate artist and classmate Susan Rothenberg on account of having one of her many beautiful works selected to decorate the White House. President and Mrs. Obama recently borrowed 47 art pieces from several Washington museums to decorate their private residence and other sections of the White House. Susan's "Butterfly" (1976) was borrowed from the National Gallery of Art and is one of only six of the chosen works by female artists. (See inserted pictures.) You can learn more about Susan at: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/rothenberg/index.html Our congratulations go to Jack Szostak, Ph.D. '77, who received the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work done on how chromosomes are copied and protected from degradation. Dr. Szostak received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cornell, where he stayed for two years as a research associate before joining the biochemistry department at Harvard in 1979. He shared the nobel prize with Elizabeth H. Blackburn from UCSF and Carol Greider from Johns Hopkins. Congratulations go too to Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Steven W. Squyres on receiving the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society. The award recognizes the excellence of his public communication efforts for the Mars Exploration Rover mission for which he was principal scientific investigator.
More good news. The following Cornell professors have received pretigious grants from the National Institute of Health: Joseph Fetcho (neurobiology, Alexander Travis (reproductive biology), Shu-Bing Qian (biochemistry), John Lis (molecular biology and genetics), Harold Craighead (applied and engineering physics), Moonsoo Jin (biomedical engineering), and Samie Jaffrey (professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical School.) The awards support "scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering - and possibly transforming approaches - to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.' The award guidelines stipulate that researchers pursue an entirely new line of research. http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2009/od-24.htm Working Mother magazine has recognized Cornell for the fourth consecutive time as one of the 100 best employers for mothers in the workforce. The government's stimulus plan approved last February has already funded several Cornell projects to the sum of over $106 million. The latest award adds up to about $19 million to support research at the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory. Some of this money will go towards research and development of the new linear accelerator Energy Recovery Linac (ERL). The complete conceptual design is expected by 2010.
Cornell was one of 30 schools chosen by the German Embassy to participate in the nationwide "Freedom Without Walls Campaign" to honor the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Students erected a 16 by 8 feet replica of the wall and submitted graffiti designs to be posted on the wall. Events in late September included a charity run including scavenger huts and puzzles representing the freedom of mobility gained by East Germans after the wall came down. Photo by Pat Farnach http://cornellsun.com/node/38295 For those of you planning to drive to Cornell in the near future, remember that starting November 1st texting while driving in the state of New York is subject to $150 fines. Watch out your snail mail! You will soon be hearing from our co-Presidents Alice Katz Berglas and Rolf Frantz. Do not forget
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