The six-month search for Cornell University's 12th president has ended with the announcement that David J. Skorton, president of the University of Iowa.
His love of jazz adds a soulful dimension to David J. Skorton, Cornell's newly named president, who has achieved national recognition as a supporter of the humanities and arts.
One part of David Skorton's career echoes a recent major theme in Cornell scholarship: the application of computer technology and computer science ideas in other disciplines.
As an associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, and radiation oncology, at the University of Iowa's College of Medicine, Robin Davisson, Cornell's next first lady, focuses her research on the basic mechanisms of function, control and signaling in the cardiovascular system.
Both Hunter Rawlings and David Skorton hail from the University of Iowa - known as the Hawkeyes in the athletic arena. And yet the transition from the Big Ten to the Ivy League is one between two institutions that on many accounts are surprisingly similar.
The formation of a search committee for Cornell University's 12th president began less than a month after President Jeffrey S. Lehman's sudden resignation on June 11, 2005.
Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning will be getting a new building that will be a contemporary architectural gem -- designed by the firm of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2006 at the Cornell Club of New York and at Weill Medical College of Cornell in New York City, Jan. 19-21.
Cornell has announced a planned upgrade of its combined heat and power system to adapt to growing demand while reducing the university's impact on the environment.
Last summer, Weill Cornell graduate students offered a six-week, hands-on course to students from the Manhattan Day and Night High School who plan to pursue careers in science.
Publication in the journal Nature is a coup for any research team, but Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have earned recognition in the journal four times in recent months with landmark findings.
