Because men born in Qatar get an annual salary from birth, they are more apathetic toward education than women are, said Linda Finlay, who recently taught at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
Cornell's emphasis on outreach to a wide range of farmers is now bringing science-based expertise to one of New York's most traditional farm communities: Amish families in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. (Oct. 13, 2006)
Dan Luo, whose work in nucleic acid engineering is changing the way scientists look at DNA, has garnered a prestigious 2006 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation. (Oct. 12, 2006)
President David Skorton detailed accomplishments, new initiatives and challenges as he led Cornell's leadership on virtual tours of the university in the present day and in 2015 during his first State of the University Address.
Malcolm Bilson, professor emeritus of music at Cornell, has been awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his lifetime achievements in period and chamber music.
John V. Murra, whose pioneering research on the Incas transformed historical understanding of pre and post-Columbian Andean social systems, was a member of the Cornell faculty from 1968 to 1982.
Yongkeun Joh, Cornell M.S. '78 in food science, and his wife and business partner, Sunny, M.S. '77, have endowed the Yongkeun Joh Professorship of Food Ingredient and Product Formulation.
Emphasizing links between the Ithaca and New York City campuses, alumni joined trustees, administrators and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Weill Cornell Medical College Oct. 26 to launch the 'public phase' of the university's $4 billion campaign.
Now more than ever, researchers are bridging the distance between Ithaca and New York City to collaborate on big-picture projects -- the kinds that require the combined expertise of theoreticians, experimentalists and clinicians.
Campaigns are not just about raising a lot of money -- they are about raising a lot of money for specific academic priorities. That is a major lesson learned from Cornell's last record-setting $1.5 billion campaign, 1990-95.
