The Cornell Board of Trustees has approved an increase in the minimum stipend rates for graduate teaching and research assistants and graduate fellowship holders.
New research from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Qatar finds that indigenous Arabs descended of humans who migrated out of Africa before others continued on to colonize Europe and Asia.
Cornell University and its Center for Transformative Action will received a 2016 Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award recognizing top higher education approaches to social entrepreneurship.
Each of the three schools that will comprise the College of Business will retain their unique academic cultures. “This is the strength of this emerging business school," said Provost Michael Kotlikoff.
A new immersion program will prepare Johnson MBA students and MPS students in the Department of Information Science in the Digital Technology Immersion program for real-world interdisciplinary work.
The president and provost have outlined a process of engagement aimed to garner input from faculty, students, staff and alumni in shaping the new integrated College of Business. A host of committees have been established, and input is being sought through open forums, a series of alumni events and online feedback.
Marianne Krasny, director of the Civic Ecology Lab and professor in the Department of Natural Resources, has been elected a foreign fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.
On Jan. 29, the Cornell Board of Trustees approved a standard that will guide its decisions on divesting university funds for socially responsible reasons. In applying that standard, it voted to refrain from divesting from fossil fuels.
Approximately 500 Cornell alumni and friends gathered Jan. 29 in New York City to mark the completion of Cornell's capital campaign, which raised $6.36 billion for university priorities.
