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Start taking those great summer photos – and review some of your best from this past year – to submit to the 31st annual Pawprint Photography Contest.

Faculty and staff members are invited to submit digital images in the following nine categories: Adults, Animals, Cornell (any location), Humor, Landscape, Nature, Special Effects (digital enhancement), Structures/Buildings and Unspecified.

The first-place winners from each category will then be evaluated as a group by the judges, who will select one image as “Best in Show.”

Contest rules

After listening to this year’s Leading Cornell participants present their recommendations on how to develop, engage and retain staff, President David Skorton invited them to share the same material with his leadership team.

The offer reaffirmed for the 23-person class the value of their Leading Cornell experience, which began last October under the guidance of Sam Bacharach, co-founder of the Bacharach Leadership Group and the ILR School’s McKelvey-Grant Professor.

In support of the university’s Toward New Destinations diversity and inclusion strategy, Cornell’s supplier show focusing exclusively on businesses owned by women, minorities or veterans was held May 16 on campus. More than 60 individuals stopped by, visiting the displays, talking with suppliers and attending the suppliers’ short presentations.

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Sgt. Philip Mospan was promoted to lieutenant, five Cornell University Police (CUP) officers sworn in, and two K-9 patrol teams introduced at the officer commissioning and swearing-in ceremony May 15 in the Statler Ballroom.

Although the promotion and appointments had already been in effect, the event formally recognized the officers’ achievements and new responsibilities.

The next six-week “Living Healthy Tompkins” workshop series will be held May 21-June 25, 1-3:30 p.m., at the Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, near Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.

The program focuses on individuals with such long-term health challenges as arthritis, heart disease, high blood pressure, chronic pain, breathing difficulties and diabetes, helping participants make lifestyle changes they want to make. 

For the past 33 years, Dave Kalb has been roaming the halls of Bradfield Hall and Plant Sciences in support of the Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology. Now he’s about to roam hospital halls as he takes on a second career – as a registered nurse.

Cornell’s 11th annual Dump and Run program seeks donations of clothing, furniture, nonperishable food and other useful items through June 1. Donations will be resold in August at a large community sale to benefit local nonprofit organizations.

Last year’s Dump and Run program collected about 20 tons of reusable items and raised more than $50,000.

This year, Senior Convocation and the Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony will be held Saturday, May 25, and Cornell’s 145th Commencement, Sunday, May 26.

 Help make graduation special for Cornell’s students and families, and automatically be entered in a drawing to win a free iPad or two free round-trip tickets to New York City on the Campus-to-Campus bus when you register at http://www.commencement.cornell.edu/May/ushers/index.html. Volunteers will also receive:



Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Ontario County, in Canandaigua, New York, recently received an award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recognizing the CCE’s Farm Disaster Preparation Certificate program through the FEMA 2012 Community Resilience Innovation Challenge program.