Peter Eisenman '54 named Rhodes Professor

Architect and scholar Peter Eisenman '54, B.Arch. '55, is Cornell's newest Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor. Rhodes professors serve for three years and visit the Ithaca campus for one week a year. (Oct. 9, 2008)

Paz-Soldan 'shocked' to discover he's a top-50 intellectual

Novelist, literary scholar and Cornell professor Edmundo Paz-Soldan was named to a list of the 50 most influential Latin intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Astronomy, art and music, old and new, create a conductor's 'dream scenario'

The Cornell Symphony Orchestra will premiere 'Anillos,' by Cornell composer Roberto Sierra, Oct. 11 in Bailey Hall, as part of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences annual meeting. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Carole Boyce Davies receives book award

Africana and English faculty member Carol Boyce Davies has received an award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her historical biography of radical intellectual Claudia Jones. (Oct. 8, 2008)

The last word on economics

Larry Blume, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and professor of information science, has co-edited a 7,680-page, eight-volume work, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed. (Oct. 8, 2008)

Rhodes to serve on board of new Saudi university that will introduce new ideas into kingdom

Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes has been appointed to the board of trustees of King Abdullah University for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. (Oct. 7, 2008)

New Human Ecology dean takes hands-on approach

Alan Mathios, the new Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology, plans to improve facilities, collaborations and real-world learning. (Oct. 7, 2008)

Terzian honored by Armenian Academy of Sciences

Cornell astronomer Yervant Terzian received a Gold Medal, the highest honor from the Armenian government's Ministry of Science and Education, in Yerevan, Armenia Sept. 17. (Oct. 7, 2008)

PeopleSoft brings power to campus, despite complexity and some challenges

The new PeopleSoft computer system is not so much about technology as it is about better business practices and capabilities the university didn't have before. (Oct. 2, 2008)