Bolivian writer Jose Edmundo Paz-Soldan, a professor of Hispanic literature in the Department of Romance Studies, is helping young and emerging Latino and Latin American writers at Cornell. (Jan. 16, 2012)
Seven undergraduates in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design have each received $5,000 scholarship awards in a prestigious national fashion design and management competition. (Jan. 16, 2012)
As technology entrepreneur himself, Ezra Cornell might see the new science and technology campus as a reiteration of everything he intended in founding his university. (Jan. 12, 2012)
A new program for accessible parking for employees will require municipal parking placards and instituting a payment structure for long-term parking; the process for short-term parking remains as is. (Jan. 12, 2012)
Benedict Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies, has received the 2011 Albert O. Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council. (Jan. 12, 2012)
ILR School Dean Harry Katz and Professor Rose Batt were named Scholar Fellows Jan. 7 by the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Another ILR faculty member and two alumni were also honored. (Jan. 10, 2012)
The end of the Iraq war gives universities the opportunity to hire veterans with leadership abilities and relevant skills in areas such as operations, business, engineering, finance and hospitality. (Jan. 10, 2012)
Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes has been named the first trustee emeritus of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. He was instrumental in the founding of that university. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Soumitra Dutta, a professor of business and technology and founder and faculty director of a new-media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, will become the 11th dean of Johnson July 1. (Jan. 9, 2012)
