Outreach coordinator receives Williams research award

Corinna Lewis, outreach coordinator of Cornell Abroad, received the 2012 Marilyn Emmons Williams Award in March for promoting undergraduate research at Cornell.

Group focuses on Nicaragua service learning, reflection

Students with Bridges to Community not only takes students to Nicaragua to build during spring break but also run a course to help students process their experiences.

Student entrepreneurs showcase their companies

Students presented their companies at Entrepreneurship@Cornell’s first annual eLab Demo Day April 18.

Food for seniors, vaccine delivery are the Big Ideas

Ideas to provide seniors with better food and deliver vaccines via peanuts won top prizes in the annual Big Idea competition April 19.

Entrepreneurship is future of global economy, Porges says

Entrepreneurship@Cornell banquet keynote speaker Shelly Porges '74, MPS '77, senior adviser at the Global Entrepreneurship Program, discussed the importance of entrepreneurship for global development.

We need to help immigrants stay in U.S., panelists say

Cornell joined more than 75 colleges and universities to observe the National Day of Immigration Reform with a debate on the issue April 19.

Three on faculty win Guggenheim fellowships

They are Brian Crane (chemistry and chemical biology), Gary Evans (design and environmental analysis and human development) and Natalie Mahowald (atmospheric sciences).

Haym Hirsh named dean of Computing and Information Science

Haym Hirsh, professor and chair of computer science at Rutgers University, has been named Cornell’s dean of Computing and Information Science, effective July 1.

Joan and Irwin Jacobs give $133M to name Cornell Tech institute

Irwin Mark Jacobs '54, founding chairman and CEO emeritus of Qualcomm, and his wife, Joan Klein Jacobs '54, have made a $133 million gift to create the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.