Author Archives: SM

Get started: Use the menu bar above to access useful information about the house, our activities and programs, and the house fellows’ role in making Bethe House a vibrant intellectual community. Join us for our opening events on Wednesday, August 24 … Continue reading →

Get inspired about the possibilities that are yours as a house fellow at Hans Bethe House. Join Scott, Erica, a GRF, and a few other house fellows for an orientation lunch. We’ll chat a bit over a nice lunch at Banfi’s about ways to … Continue reading →

We get started on Wednesday, August 26, don’t miss the festivities! 5:00-6:00 House Fellows reception in Scott’s apartment (125 HBH) 6:00 House Dinner (Jansen’s Dining Room) 7:00 Annual house photo (West Campus Green) Help us get the semester of to … Continue reading →

On October 8 (this Wednesday) and November 19, we’re opening our Wednesday @ Bethe House routine — house fellows reception, house dinner, Bethe Ansatz — to Cornell faculty thinking about applying for a house professor/dean position on West Campus. I’d … Continue reading →

Help carry West Campus into the future! You may have noticed that the provost’s office recently sent out a call for applications to fill two house professor/dean positions on West Campus — both André Dhondt (at Cook House) and I … Continue reading →

We get started on Wednesday, August 27, don’t miss the festivities! 5:00-6:00 House Fellows reception in Scott’s apartment (125 HBH) 6:00 House Dinner (Jansen’s Dining Room) 7:00 Annual house photo (West Campus Green) Help us get the semester of to … Continue reading →

Here’s an excerpt from “Voices: Stories of Insight and Experience,” a handbook Cornell distributes to families of entering students. It’s a brief expression of what I think we’re all about here on West Campus. Living and Learning on West Campus

Thanks for a great 2013-14. Looking forward to an even better 2014-15.

On Wednesday, April 23 our weekly house fellows reception will be in the Bethe House common room (235 HBH). Same time as usual — 5:00-6:00pm. We migrate to the common room once a month and invite Bethe House students to … Continue reading →

The call has just gone out for the new student reading project for the coming year (see the website). We at Hans Bethe House typically host four or five of the small-group discussion sections in Bethe House primarily for new … Continue reading →