Sociology professor Victor Nee was recently honored by the international Academy of Management with an award for his recent book project on the emergence and growth of a private enterprise economy in China.
Three new North Campus faculty-in-residence – Sahara Byrne, Christopher Umbach and Maria Fernandez – have developed programs for first-year students in their residence halls designed to encourage students' intellectual engagement in their daily lives.
Six distinguished scholars will address the topic, “After the American Century? Fears and Hopes for America's Future” in a series of talks on campus this fall.
South African activist Albert “Albie” Sachs made his first visit to campus Aug. 29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. He spoke about his work fighting apartheid, and he emphasized forgiveness.
Three new assistant professors - in the fields of the history of art, classics and music - have launched an interdisciplinary working group on medieval cosmology that will also offers seminars and lectures.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which aims to boost the number of faculty members from groups underrepresented in higher education, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Professor Matthew Evangelista, in giving one of the Cornell Context lectures for the 2013 New Student Reading Project, said that human rights violations, such as the Japanese-American internment in World War II, persist today.
Graduate students Daniel Cellucci, Nicholas Cheney, Brian Koopman, Ethan Ritz and Jason Yosinski are five of 65 graduate students whom have been chosen as Space Technology Research Fellows by the NASA.
