![](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/shadow_left.gif) |
![Ezra Update Masthead — please enable images](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/logo_top.gif) |
![](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/logo_left.gif) |
CORNELL'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS NOVEMBER 2013
|
![](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/logo_btm.gif) |
Events |
"Navigating the Affordable Care Act in New York" - Dec. 5, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, N.Y.
"The Wacky World of Entertainment Law" - Dec. 6, Hollywood, Calif.
The Breakfast Club - Dec. 10, The Cornell Club-New York City
The promise and peril of 3-D printing - Dec. 10, New York City
A conversation between Silicon Valley and the Johnson winter trekkers - Dec. 19, Palo Alto, Calif.
"Throwback Thursday" sesquicentennial photo scanning reception - Dec. 19, Wellesley, Mass.
Cornell Club of Israel's 12th annual gala dinner - Dec. 26, Herzliya, Israel
Cornell Cares Day - early January 2014, multiple locations
Register now: CAU: Dubai, Oman and Qatar with Ross Brann - March 27-April 5, 2014
|
Spotlight |
![Gettysburg Address video still](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Nov13/photos/GettysburgTN.jpg) |
Cornell marked the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Nov. 19. Cornell has one of the five known copies written in Lincoln's own hand. |
Tribute |
Dean Alan Mathios on the legacy of Don Tobias
|
Obituaries |
• S. Cushing Strout
• Donald Tobias
• Norman M. Vrana, MEE '51
|
Links |
![now.cornell.edu/cu/](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/EUCornellNowLogo.gif) |
![cornell.edu/nyc/](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/nyc_btn.gif) |
![cornell.edu/video](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/ccast_btn_tv.gif)
|
EZRA MAGAZINE
CORNELL CHRONICLE
BIG RED ATHLETICS
CORNELL CLUB-NEW YORK
CARING COMMUNITY
THE CORNELL STORE
|
ALUMNI HOME
CORNELL ALUMNI MAGAZINE
VOLUNTEERING
ALUMNI EVENTS CALENDAR
CORNELL ANNUAL FUND
GIVE TO CORNELL
YOUR IMPACT
|
Connect with Cornell |
|
|
![Students watch 'Sleepy Hollow' in Mews Hall collage](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Nov13/photos/Nov13.headline.jpg) |
Curled up on couches, munching popcorn and sipping hot cider, a group of students has the enviable task of watching TV and live-tweeting their observations – for credit. It's all in the name of social science, as part of a communication class about how social media is shaping the success of a new series.
|
![Kathy Savitt](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Nov13/photos/SavittTN.jpg) |
Kathy Savitt '85, chief marketing officer for Yahoo, was all set to attend Harvard when a weekend visit to Cornell changed her plans. |
![Matthew Patrick Omans](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Nov13/photos/OmansTN.jpg) |
Lambda Chi Alpha alumni have raised $125,000 to establish a memorial fund in Matthew Patrick Omans' name. The fund was dedicated on campus Oct. 19. |
|
![xxx](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Nov13/photos/teaser.Nov13.jpg) |
A famous math problem that has vexed mathematicians for decades has met an elegant solution by Cornell researchers. |
|
More from ![Chronicle Online](https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/graphics/chron_logo2.gif) |
![Fredrik Logevall](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Logevall11-20-TND.jpg) |
Produce graduates who have cross-cultural awareness, Logevall says. |
![ice cream](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/IceCream11-21-TND.jpg) |
Public release of restocked Cornell Dairy ice cream expected in January. |
![3-D-printed ear](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Ear11-18-TND.jpg) |
Cornell and Weill Cornell professors' work was honored in New York City. |
![Carl Sagan](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Sagan11-13-TND.jpg) |
1,705 boxes include letters to budding astronomers, articles, to-do lists and more. |
![plant seedling](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/SustAwards11-7-TND.jpg) |
Cornell's carbon footprint strategies are working, but there's a lot more to do. |
![Africana Center](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/AfricanaPhD11-25-TND.jpg) |
It is the first doctoral program in Africana studies in New York state. |
![teacher](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/TeachingGift11-5-TND.jpg) |
The supporters of teaching initiatives endowed a Teaching Excellence Institute. |
![Autodesk logo](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Autodesk11-21-TND.jpg) |
It is one of the largest gifts-in-kind ever received by the university. |
![ILR School](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/ILR11-11-TND.jpg) |
Research aim is to improve education and career outcomes. |
![typhoon](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Tech11-20-TND.jpg) |
C-TAM program will give leg up to ideas stemming from Cornell research. |
![typhoon](http://www.news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Typhoon11-14-TND.jpg) |
Cornellians collected aid and planned fundraisers for Filipinos affected by storm. |
|
|
|
Please send editorial comments and suggestions for Ezra Update to Joe Wilensky at [email protected].
To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your e-mail address for Ezra Update, go to http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/enewsletter/index.cfm.
Cornell Chronicle • 312 College Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850 • 607-255-4206 • [email protected]
|
|