Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, the Whiton Professor of Classics emeritus and a renowned scholar of the ancient world, died at his Ithaca home Jan. 16. (Jan. 26, 2007)
Quinetta Roberson, the first African American to receive tenure in Cornell's ILR School, has been recognized by Diverse Issues in Higher Education as one of the top ten emerging scholars for 2007. (Jan. 24, 2007)
The Second Annual 21 Dinner will be held Saturday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. in Bridgewaters in New York City to celebrate the life and legacy of Mario St. George Boiardi '04. (Jan. 24, 2007)
For the first time, a fish identified as endangered has been shown to have recovered -- and in the Hudson River near New York City, report Cornell's Mark Bain and colleagues in the online publication PLoS ONE. (Jan. 24, 2007)
Professor Muawia Barazangi says peak oil production in the Middle East could be delayed if oil companies would invest more heavily in drilling and extraction technologies and push to explore new sites. (Jan. 24, 2007)
This regular column, written by Cornell alumni, will follow the progress of the five-year, $4 billion fund-raising campaign announced by President David Skorton in October 2006. (Jan. 24, 2007)
A recent gift created an interdisciplinary center at Weill Cornell Medical College to study Alzheimer's disease. Finding ways to better understand and treat the devastating illness is the subject of several efforts already under way. (Jan. 23, 2007)
Hector Abruna, Barbara Baird, Geoffrey WIlliam Coates, Michael Shuler and Mariana Wolfner have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
On Jan. 22, suspended Cornell student Nathan Poffenbarger was sentenced in Tompkins County Court to 16 months to four years in state prison for a hate-crime stabbing. (Jan. 23, 2007)
