Students bring the right stuff to artist's print project

An unusual print project now on display in Los Angeles, incorporating a 3-D model of a new space telescope, is the result of a collaboration between art students at Cornell and artist Pedro Barbeito.

Record number of January graduates celebrated

A record number of students - 980 - will graduate in January, and the winter graduate recognition event celebrated their accomplishments Dec. 21 in Barton Hall.

Planners to study development in Indonesia

City and regional planning professor Victoria Beard is leading a new international development planning workshop this winter and spring, focused on squatters in the city of Solo, Indonesia.

Welcome new members of the Cornell faculty

To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.

Ratan Tata inducted into National Academy of Engineering

Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, chairman emeritus of India’s Tata Group, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering as a foreign associate last week during the NAE annual meeting.

Dennis Maher '99 plumbs the embedded life of stuff

In an installation in Sibley Dome this semester, artist, architect and educator Dennis Maher, B.Arch. ’99, combines used and discarded matter that explores the embedded history and latent qualities of objects.

MOU establishes learning center in India

A memorandum of understanding between Cornell and the Keystone Foundation was signed Sept. 23 that establishes the Nilgiris Field Learning Center in Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India.

McElheny named first Teiger Mentor in the Arts

Sculptor, performance artist, writer and filmmaker Josiah McElheny is Cornell’s first Teiger Mentor in the Arts, appointed for the fall 2013 semester.

Herzog, Eisenman to speak at architecture symposium

Architects Jacques Herzog and Peter Eisenman ’54, B.Arch. ’55, will visit campus to discuss their work Sept. 10-11 as part of the 2013 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series and Symposium in Milstein Hall.