John Cleese is back by popular demand -- again. Cornell President Hunter Rawlings broke the good news during his Commencement address today.
"We have been fortunate to have John Cleese as an A.D. White Professor for eight years -…
Cleaving the gloom of low, sodden skies that threatened to envelop seniors and their families gathered in the Schoellkopf Crescent, Martin Luther King III implored Cornell University's Class of 2006 to "rise up" and lead the…
Saturday's (May 27) Commencement highlights included Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine's Hooding Ceremony, ROTC commissioning and the Cornell President and Trustees Parent Reception. The Veterinary College's…
"On the admissions front, it's been an extremely busy season, the busiest in Cornell's history," reported President Hunter Rawlings to the Cornell Board of Trustees May 26. Not only have applications jumped 35 percent in the past…
"Before this course I didn't know a thing about welding. Now I've learned two different types of welding," said exuberant architecture student Rebecca Southworth as she sawed, sparks flying, at a steel angle iron in the Sculpture…
Scott Emr, a highly respected biologist, who has been hired as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 endowed director of a new Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.
In putting together Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative, the university has just announced its cornerstone piece for the restructuring of the life sciences on campus -- the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology. The new…
Finding the right person to lead an institute that will be the focus of the New Life Sciences Initiative (NLSI) was no easy task. The search that led to Scott Emr, the newly named director of the Institute of Cell and Molecular…
Donna StockeCornell engineering seniors Michael Stocke, left, and William Culley, who have been fans of miniature golf since childhood, at the preschoolers' putting green they built for the Sciencenter's space-themed miniature…
Law students at Cornell are gaining an extralegal perspective on the workings of juries, thanks to Valerie Hans and her training in social sciences and psychology. In 2005 Hans joined the Cornell Law School faculty as a professor…
A collegial family has grown at Cornell during the course of research and programs devoted to The Evolving Family, the 2004-07 theme project sponsored by the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS). "There are a huge number of…
GENEVA, N.Y. -- Over the last century, apple breeders at Cornell University have named 62 apple varieties, many of which, like Empire and Cortland, are internationally renowned for their taste, quality, nutritional value and…
