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CORNELL'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS AUGUST 2011
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Events |
Promote your brand on Facebook - Sept. 7, webinar
Paleontology can help save the world, with Professor Warren Allmon - Sept. 15, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Water brokerage expert Tom Rooney - Sept. 21, Palo Alto, Calif.
Fiber Science & Apparel Design reception, with José Chan '93 - Sept. 23, New York City
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz on today's economy - Oct. 3, The Cornell Club-New York City
Cornell Community Reading Project comes to France! - Oct. 6, Paris
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Spotlight |
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A Move-In Day slide show: Boxes, luggage, eager students and teary-eyed parents flooded the sidewalks and lawns of North Campus Aug. 19 as Cornell welcomed the Class of 2015. |
Obituaries |
• Alan J. Hahn
• Alexander Kazimirov
• Gerald S. Thomas, Ph.D. '78
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EZRA MAGAZINE
CHRONICLE ONLINE
CORNELL BIG RED
CORNELL CLUB-NEW YORK
CARING COMMUNITY
THE CORNELL STORE
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ALUMNI HOME
CORNELL ALUMNI MAGAZINE
VOLUNTEERING
ALUMNI EVENTS CALENDAR
CORNELL ANNUAL FUND
GIVE TO CORNELL
YOUR IMPACT
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Bill Nye '77 dedicated the new Solar Noon Clock at Rhodes Hall Aug. 27 in front of a crowd of hundreds. The clock incorporates a solar noon feature that visually indicates the sun's zenith each day. Also, see a CornellCast video capturing Nye's visit and the celebratory public countdown to solar noon on Hoy Field.
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![James Needham with student](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Aug11/photos/Needham.thumb.jpg) |
Professor James G. Needham taught the first limnology course in the United States -- and possibly in the world -- at Cornell in spring 1908.
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![Allie Munson](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Aug11/photos/Munson.thumb.jpg) |
Cornell women's basketball seniors Allie Munson and Maka Anyanwu spent the summer nearly 6,000 miles apart, but their experiences were similar. |
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Come back to Cornell Sept. 16-18 for Homecoming Weekend! Show your Cornell spirit at family events and celebrations, concerts and a student march to Schoellkopf stadium where the Big Red will take on Bucknell. |
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In an effort to end hazing, the ban on pledging will begin during the 2012-13 academic year. |
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Students moved into Milstein Hall Aug. 24 to take their places in 16 studios. |
![Helene Rosenblatt](http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug11/tn/LegacyTN.jpg) |
The Legacy Project blog seeks to capture and disseminate the wisdom of older Americans. |
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Faculty gave New Student Reading Project lectures Aug. 21 on Doctorow's historical novel. |
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Students will join volunteer alumni during a daylong animal wellness clinic in the Bronx. |
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A look at Cornell's just-arrived sesquicentennial class shows growing diversity of all kinds. |
![Peter Lepage](http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug11/tn/LepageTN.jpg) |
Two senior associate deans will guide the department as it expands its faculty. |
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