Arts and Sciences adds 11 humanities faculty

The College of Arts and Sciences will have 11 new faculty members this fall.

Cornell Tech to open space in Roosevelt Island gallery

Cornell Tech will open a space at the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association, 527 Main St., Roosevelt Island starting Sept. 3.

Grad student aims to improve particle accelerators

New interdisciplinary research on photocathodes by physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare has the potential to dramatically improve accelerator performance.

Ashim Datta to lead food safety simulation project

A $683,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support a project aimed at integrating the power of computer simulation with the teaching of food safety principles.

Lynden Archer receives chemical engineering award

Professor Lynden Archer has received the 2014 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Black alumni group awards first literary grant

The Cornell Black Alumni Association is helping first-time alumni authors with a new literary grant program. The first recipient is Dionne M. Benjamin '00, who envisioned a book series called “City Kids.”

Trustee Emeritus Dick Call dies at age 84

Richard "Dick" C. Call ’52, farmer, businessman and Cornell trustee emeritus, died Aug. 2 after a long illness. He was 84 years old.

Things to Do, Aug. 1-22

Events on campus include free concerts, exhibitions of art quilts and of craft brewing in New York state past and present, stargazing and a paleontology symposium.

Ag secretary briefed on nutrition, dairy, climate research

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack met with Cornell faculty members July 29 to learn about solutions in the realm of dairy, nutrition and climate change.