Peter Beinart, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, stressed that American Jewish organizations are failing to connect with young American Jews, who largely feel alienated from Israel.
The ExxonMobil Foundation has given Cornell $595,970 through its Educational Matching Gifts Program. The gift was presented to President David Skorton April 30 by Jean A. Baderschneider, Ph.D. '78.
Andrew G. Clark, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Students will receive national recognition by United Way Worldwide for their support of the United Way of Tompkins County Stephen E. Garner Summers of Service Program May 2 in Nashville, Tenn.
Long portrayed as stagnant, the income growth of the U.S. middle class may be more than 10 times greater than previously suggested by some economists, according to Cornell research.
The winner of the annual high school fashion design competition is Alyssa Kim, whose design was fabricated by Cornell students and modeled April 28 at the Cornell Design League show.
Cornell students recognized the impact that staff have had on their lives at the first student-nominated staff recognition dinner, held April 26 in the atrium of the Physical Sciences building.
Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and emeritus professor of Judaic studies who taught at Cornell from 1971 to 1975, died April 30 in Jerusalem. He was 102. (April 30, 2012)
This fall, there will be a new big cheese on campus. Cornell Big Red Cheddar is slated to hit campus eateries and the shelves of the Cornell Store in November. (April 30, 2012)
