Joining such programs as Engaged Learning + Research, the Cornell Public Service Center and Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Engaged Cornell initiative announced Oct. From my future vantage point at the Smithsonian, Robin and I will be cheering them on and looking forward to learning from their success,” he said. The arts and art practice as a mode of knowledge production, and efforts “to make the arts even more central to Cornell’s identity.” He cited the Cornell Council for the Arts’ 2014 Biennial collaborations in art and nanoscale technology, and new initiatives “to enhance the role of art in a wide range of disciplines. The working group’s proposal is under review. The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future currently marshals 414 faculty experts in energy, the environment and economic development/poverty alleviation and a working group of faculty and administrators was asked to create a plan to accelerate Cornell’s efforts to meet its carbon neutrality goal on campus by 2035, 15 years earlier than originally planned. He highlighted three broad areas in which Cornell leads “and where we have an opportunity to do even more on our own campus and for the general good”: “Not a bad year for Cornell,” Skorton said. “Today we excel across so many areas,” he said, citing recent National Medal of Science and National Humanities Medal winners, Professors Emeriti Jerrold Meinwald and Mike Abrams, respectively and 2014 Nobel laureates for chemistry Eric Betzig, M.S. “There is, to my knowledge, no other university in the broad sweep of American higher education that combines Cornell’s distinctive features in such a productive way.” “Without a doubt, my years at this unique university … have been the high point of a long career in higher education, and I am very grateful – I’m thrilled – to be able to complete my service during Cornell’s sesquicentennial,” Skorton said Oct. In his final State of the University Address to the annual meeting of the Cornell Board of Trustees and University Council, President David Skorton outlined some high points of Cornell’s continuing excellence and its challenges going forward.
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