Two years to the day after Cornell won Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC competition, President David Skorton signed the lease for the city land on which Cornell NYC Tech will be built.
Vice President Susan Murphy, responding to the appeal by Delta Kappa Epsilon, upheld the revocation decision but reduced the loss of recognition period from a minimum of three years to two years.
Colleagues held a celebration and symposium to mark Per Pinstrup-Andersen’s retirement Dec. 13-14 following 40 years of combating world poverty and malnutrition.
The seventh annual Bartels Awards for Custodial Service Excellence, held Dec. 16 in Bartels Hall, recognized this year’s recipients of the Bartels scholarships and gave six housekeeping and custodial staff members Bartels Awards.