Ezra Update - January 2011


	CORNELL'S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS JANUARY 2011

Events

Save the date! "Early Evening with David Skorton" - March 14, Los Angeles

Cornell Club of Chicago's Chinese Banquet - Feb. 11, Chicago

All-Ivy Two-Day Intensive Wine Course - Feb. 12-13, The Cornell Club-New York City

"Social Networks Today: Cornell Research Into Networks, Coincidence and Influence" - Feb. 15, Palo Alto, Calif.

Museum of the Moving Image Tour with PCCW - Feb. 16, Astoria, Queens, N.Y.

"How to Brand, License and Protect your Intellectual Property" - Feb. 23, webinar

Kansai Chapter of the Cornell Hotel Society, Early Spring Gathering - Feb. 25, Osaka, Japan

We invite you to share your wishes for recovery to Gabrielle Giffords, M.R.P. '97, and Susan Hileman '73 and their families. The two alumnae were among those wounded in the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz.


20th annual Asian alumni banquet brings hundreds to Chinatown This year's event honored Roderick Chu, MBA '71, raised money for a Pan-Asian garden at Cornell Plantations and warmed a frigid evening in New York City with alumni spirit.
	Click by click, online fans root for national wrestling title Coach Rob Koll's Big Red men's team has picked up momentum through its use of social media.
	Passion for 'Star Wars' was job credential for alumna Margaret Weitekamp '01 is the curator of popular culture for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
	It's all in the Big Red family for Long Island winery Bedell Cellars employs several generations of Cornell graduates and its wines will be featured at a Feb. 8 dinner at The Cornell Club-New York City.

Four candidates are running for two available seats as alumni-elected trustees. Voting runs from Feb. 1 until April 1.

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	Four on faculty named Weiss Presidential Fellows Trustees honor Harry Greene, Paul Sawyer, Robert Smith and Robert Thorne.
	Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project to map DNA paths of student origins Effort will map the 'deep' ancestry of 200 undergraduate volunteers, sponsor discussions.
	FDA gives approval for first clinical trials of 'Cornell Dots' in humans The brightly glowing nanoparticles can be used to light up cancer cells as an aid to diagnosis.
	CU recognized as an 'institution of community engagement' Nod is top recognition for outreach activities from the Carnegie Foundation.
	Harris Rosen '61 named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year He is president and chief operating officer of Rosen Hotels and Resorts Inc.
	Nano exhibition at Johnson Museum explores car's societal impact College of Architecture, Art and Planning shows the Tata Nano's affordable design achievement.
	Johnson School forges new partnership in China The alliance is with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
	Campus-to-Campus bus expands service to and from New York City Six weekly round trips have been added, including an early morning NYC departure.