Scott Emr has kept the institute focused on hypothesis-driven science that uses genetics, biochemistry, proteomics and bioinformatics to answer fundamental questions in cell biology. (Sept. 12, 2012)
U.S. News and World Report ranked Cornell first in the country among undergraduate engineering science/engineering physics programs. Cornell was also ranked No. 14 worldwide by QS. (Sept. 12, 2012)
At the Sept. 12 Faculty Senate meeting, Provost Kent Fuchs updated faculty on various university topics, including his acceptance of the revised academic calendar the senate had ratified in May.
Provost Kent Fuchs issued a university statement on revisions to the academic calendar. Changes will go into effect beginning in the spring semester of 2014.
Entrepreneurship can transform the world and lift people out of poverty, said N.R. Narayana Murthy, speaking on campus Sept. 10. But an entrepreneur needs leadership and courage. (Sept. 12, 2012)
Fashion design major Brandon Wen's edgy piece in the Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Exhibition was inspired by nature, film and art. But to pull off his vision, he needed help from a Cornell mycologist. (Sept. 12, 2012)
Poet Nicholas Friedman, MFA '12, a lecturer in the Department of English, is one of five recipients of a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, intended to encourage the writing and study of poetry. (Sept. 12, 2012)
Cornell's baroque organ is the first in the world to be equipped with wind systems that let it reproduce sounds exactly as Bach and other period composers intended. (Sept. 11, 2012)
