Cornell University Library honored retiring University Archivist Elaine Engst, M.A. '72, June 17 for her work, and for "implementing changes with grace, humor and style" over her 36-year career.
Professors Adam T. Smith, anthropology, and Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern studies, led a mini-course on archaeology for young schoolchildren June 15-19 in Ithaca.
Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus earns bragging rights when the world's first high-rise residential building built to passive house standards - a rigorous energy use standard - rises on campus.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $275,000 to Cornell University in honor of Mellon Vice President Philip E. Lewis on his retirement from the foundation.
Artist Peter Gerakaris, BFA '03, has created a tropically themed art installation at a community gallery on Roosevelt Island, commissioned to coincide with the Cornell Tech groundbreaking celebration.
Using a novel combination of mathematical methods, Cornell linguists suggest that comprehension in Asian languages works in much the same way as it does in European languages.
Accompanying her graduate studies at Cornell, Tonia Ko has earned national and international honors including commissions to create new works and a recent BMI Student Composer Award.
