The students have the floor: Government professor Suzanne Mettler, the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, is using engaged learning techniques to teach her students about real-world politics.
Dean Smith, director of Project MUSE at the Johns Hopkins University Press, has been appointed the next director of Cornell University Press, where he will lead print-to-digital-edition transition efforts.
Cornell gerontologist Karl Pillemer will become director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research Jan. 15, taking over for John Eckenrode, who has been the center's director since it was founded in 2011.
Two Cornell computer scientists have been elected fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Thorsten Joachims recognized for work in artificial intelligence.
Bernd Lambert, an authority on kinship among Pacific islanders of the Republic of Kiribati and professor of anthropology emeritus, died Jan. 3, 2015 at his Ithaca home. Lambert joined Cornell faculty in 1964.
Robert Elliott Johnston, professor of psychology, died Dec. 20 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He researched animal behavior and the mechanisms of behavior in a naturalistic or evolutionary context.
After analyzing ridership data and bus routes, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has released winter/spring 2015 schedule modifications, which include changes for some campus routes. Service revisions take effect Jan. 11.
Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, prize-winning author Douglas Egerton will share his expertise on this critical period in U.S. history as Cornell’s Merrill Family Visiting Professor.
Students in architecture, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture and Asian and religious studies spent several days together this fall exploring conditions in Southeast Asian cities.
