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Research to focus on why it’s hard to say no to police searches Vanessa Bohns will measure whether perception causes outside observers to systematically overestimate the voluntariness of consent to warrantless searches.

Golf turf expert wins posthumous award for NY impact Bob Portmess, MPS ’08, who died in 2016 at age 60, earned a posthumous Excellence in IPM Award from New York State Integrated Pest Management Aug. 10.

Student-led companies spend summer incubating ideas Eight companies and 30 students who worked on their start-up businesses in Ithaca over the summer shared their progress during a pitch competition Aug. 3.

American literature scholar kicks off Botanic Gardens’ lecture series Aug. 29 Cornell historian George Hutchinson will deliver the 2018 William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium.

President Pollack touts agricultural innovation at Cornell AgriTech President Martha E. Pollack toured Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York, Aug. 13.

American literature scholar kicks off Botanic Gardens’ lecture series Aug. 29 Cornell historian George Hutchinson will deliver the 2018 William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium.

Orientation offers peer-led guidance, welcomes families Cornell welcomes more than 4,000 first-year and transfer students to campus Aug. 17-22 with a slate of peer-led Orientation programs and events.

Things to Do, Aug. 17-24, 2018 Events on campus this week include the annual Dump and Run sale, new exhibits at the Johnson Museum and the College of Architecture, Art and Planning; and free films at Cornell Cinema.

Class of 2022 boasts business owners, researchers and a rodeo champ Before they’ve taken their first class, Cornell’s 3,325 incoming freshmen could fill a book – or several – with their accomplishments, experiences and interests.

Levitsky, Putnam, Quake elected professors-at-large Political scientist Steven Levitsky, the Sundance Institute’s Keri Putnam and biomedical engineer Stephen Quake have joined the ranks of leading scholars and public intellectuals at Cornell as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.

Estimated 2000 Additional Students Were Initially Denied Option to Waive Student Health Plan this Year The increase in initial denials is attributed to a change in the process which reviews waiver applications.

Delay in Maplewood Housing Opening Affects Over 100 Cornell Graduate Students Residents were offered options to deal with the inconvenience caused by delays in a development that has been granted several work extensions.

Former Olin Librarian, Dancer and Protester Dies at Age 87 Caroline F. Spicer, who worked at Olin library for almost 40 years, died last Saturday at the Oak Hill Manor Nursing Home in Ithaca.

Chobani Foundation to Offer Scholarship to Dairy Science Students in CALS Eight selected students who are planning to work towards a career in dairy farming will each receive a scholarship of $5,000 per year for four years, to be first awarded in the fall of 2019.

Former Bush Doctor and Cornell Alumnus Fatally Shot in Houston; Suspect Dead of Suicide Prominent cardiologist Dr. Mark J. Hausknecht, who graduated Cornell in 1975, treated President George H.W. Bush and was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity, was fatally shot while biking to work in Houston last month.