Anne Kenney, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, was regaled with an original haiku, a performance of a rewritten Doors song, gifts and a sustained standing ovation at her retirement party March 30.
The Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life has announced that Alpha Xi Delta sorority has committed a serious violation of the University Recognition Policy and has been placed on interim suspension status.
Naoto Kan, Japan’s prime minister from 2010 to 2011, discussed his experience leading his country through the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in a March 28 talk at the Statler Auditorium.
Cornell University Library and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art are collaborating on a four-year initiative engaging Cornell photography collections and sharing staff and resources in new ways.
A tunnel-boring machine that will repair New York City's Delaware Aqueduct has been named in honor of Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, Class of 1905, a suffragist civil engineer.
Assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators will arrive on April 1 to examine Cornell University Police's policies, procedures, operations and management.
Barbara Knuth, senior vice president and dean of the graduate school, sent a message to the Cornell community about the graduate assistant vote on unionization. At this time the results are inconclusive.
Interim President Hunter Rawlings announced March 28 that Cornell is planning to add a new, safety-focused online ratings system for all off-campus housing properties to the existing off-campus housing online database.
Milton Zaitlin, professor emeritus of plant pathology and an influential pioneer of plant virology research, died Oct. 11, 2016, in Ithaca, New York. He was 89.