After years as an involved community member, Ithaca Town Board member Nahmin Horwitz, 84, died on Oct. 17. Horwitz, a retired physics professor who taught at Syracuse University, served for two years on several of the board’s committees.
Thousands of Cornellians may face higher debt loads if a bill that supports subsidized Stafford loans expires on July 1, which will cause interest rates on the loans to double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent.
On Jan. 25, Cayuga Medical Center paid the federal government a $3.5 million settlement after the hospital was cited for six infractions of physician recruitment and patient referral regulations.
The Occupy movement at Cornell and across the country may still be disorganized and lack a defined goal, but it has brought a number of important issues into the political discourse of the country and the campus.
The lecture was part of a series of lectures held by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Although most speakers are Cornell faculty, Ott came to Cornell after Virginia Winkler ’14, read Ott’s book, Not One Drop, and sent Ott an email. After reading the e-mail and learning Winkler was a student at Cornell, Ott requested to come to Cornell to give the lecture.
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