Cornell Plantations kicks off its fall lecture series Aug. 24 with a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning beat poet, conservationist and scholar Gary Snyder at 5:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium.
More than 45 Cornell scholars will be among the 4,600 sociologists sharing their recent research at the annual American Sociological Association meetings, Aug. 20-23. The research addresses society's most pressing problems.
For the fifth year, Cornell employees received an announcement this July outlining the funds in which they can invest through Cornell's retirement plans, those funds' performance and fees, and other related information.
A $10 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to the Center for the Study of Inequality supports new research and educational opportunities on the causes and consequences of inequality.
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management extension educators Bobbie Severson and Dan Welch were honored for their service in July by the National Association of County Agricultural Agents.
Ralph W.F. Hardy, a biochemist who called for better biotechnology research and scientific transparency regarding genetically modified foods, died Aug. 2 in Wilmington, Delaware, at age 82.
Ben Renberg has been named senior associate vice president, effective Sept. 15, and Tracy Cary has been named associate vice president for operations, effective Aug. 22 at Cornell.
Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya researching elite runners to learn how a group of people from a small corner of East Africa could rise to become the most dominant athletes in the world.
The nonprofit Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, co-founded in 2012 by Ajay Chaudhary '03, integrates teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences into the lives of working adults.
