Senators visit Syrian Refugees

12 04 2012

John McCain and Joe Lieberman visited a refugee camp as the situation continues to get worse in Syria. Clashes reached the Turkish border and Prime Minister Erdogan is now evaluating how best to respond.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335002038472414.html?mod=googlenews_wsj




Facebook’s Female COO

28 03 2012

Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer and she previously worked at Google as well. She speaks regularly about women in the workforce, particularly about their place in male dominated industries (such as technology), and in C-level positions. These are links to an article about her in The New Yorker and two talks that she gave, one at a TED conference and one at Barnard’s commencement ceremony.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta

http://barnard.edu/headlines/transcript-and-video-speech-sheryl-sandberg-chief-operating-officer-facebook




Obama speaks at AIPAC conference

4 03 2012

“When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back”




Technion and Cornell Unite for New York Campus

16 02 2012

The following two articles appeared in the New York Times in December when the city announced that Cornell and the Israeli Technion would be opening a graduate school for sciences on Roosevelt Island.