Cornell is launching its on-campus sesquicentennial festivities with flash and fanfare during Trustee-Council Annual Meeting/Homecoming weekend, Oct. 17-18.
Nominations are being sought from among the faculty for positions as house deans and professors at two West Campus houses for terms beginning in July 2016.
Eric Betzig, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88, and William Moerner, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, have shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for groundbreaking achievements in optical microscopy.
Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, issued a statement to the Cornell community on the death of graduate student Taylan Cihan.
María Pacheco, M.P.S. ’90, a Fulbright scholar, consultant to the United Nations Foundation, founded Wakami, a company changing the way craftspeople enter the international market.