Cornell trustee Martin Tang '70 has made a gift to create the Martin Y. Tang International Scholarship Challenge. The goal is to create 12 scholarship endowments of $1 million each. (May 22, 2008)
Cornell will celebrate the achievements of physicist Watt W. Webb, June 16. Webb is co-inventor of such breakthrough imaging technologies as multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. (May 21, 2008)
For two Cornell students about to graduate May 25, the past weeks have been marked by worry about friends and relatives affected by the May 12 Sichuan, China, earthquake. (May 21, 2008)
William Rosen, a lecturer in the College of Human Ecology's Department of Policy Analysis and Management, died of brain cancer May 19 at his home in Brooktondale, N.Y. (May 21, 2008)
The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology has hired four outstanding young researchers, according to the institute's director, Scott Emr. They are: Chris Fromme, Yuxin Mao, Marcus Smolka and Fenghua Hu. (May 15, 2008)
On May 6, Cornell presented the second Women of Color Roundtable as well as first Men of Color Roundtable. The women's theme was 'Building Bridges Across Difference'; the men's theme, 'Include and Connect.' (May 15, 2008)
