Cathy Dove, vice president of Cornell Tech in New York City, has been named the 10th president of Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks. The first female president of Paul Smith’s, she will begin her new position Sept. 1.
Dean Kathryn Boor has been appointed as a director of the new Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, an independent agency to oversee national research efforts into food, agriculture and some other sciences.
Influential literary critic M.H. Abrams is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama announced the honor July 22, the day before the emeritus professor's 102nd birthday.
Researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medical College have received a $1.34 million grant to study whether obesity changes breast tissue in a manner similar to tumors, thereby permitting the disease to develop.
Yimon Aye, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Based on a new composite methodology, the Poets & Quants website ranks Cornell's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management the No. 2 undergraduate business program in the nation.
President David Skorton and Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher offered their views on research funding, new approaches and pressing challenges at a summit in New York City.
The Global Innovation Index 2014, a report co-authored by Johnson Dean Soumitra Dutta, identifies Europe and sub-Saharan Africa as current centers of innovation.
