University faculty is voting to elect new dean

Running for the position of dean of the university faculty are Joseph Burns, engineering and astronomy, and Risa Lieberwitz, labor and employment law. Voting closes March 30. (March 19, 2012)

Cornell Silicon Valley event tackles 'designing the future'

Some 500 people gathered for Cornell Silicon Valley's March 14 event to hear about designing for the future. It featured 20 speakers, including Cornell President David Skorton. (March 19, 2012)

A life on Roosevelt Island

Janet Spencer King '64, who has lived on Roosevelt Island in New York City since 1981, describes the island's changes over the years and cheers the coming of CornellNYC Tech campus. (March 15, 2012)

Ganem to receive American Chemical Society award

Bruce Ganem, Cornell's Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry, will receive the Esselen Award for Chemistry. (March 14, 2012)

Zoner stresses safety and police accessibility

Chief of Police Kathy Zoner met with students at the Intercultural Center March 8 to talk about the roles of the Cornell police as peace officers serving to keep people safe and protect property. (March 14, 2012)

Rare 'corpse plant' preparing to bloom on campus

Rare corpse flower is about to bloom in Cornell's Kenneth Post Laboratory, an event that has been recorded only 140 times.

Michael King leads journal on nanotechnology in medicine

Michael R. King, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is editor-in-chief of a new scientific journal focused on nanotubes, nanorods and nanowires applied to medicine and biology. (March 12, 2012)

Cornell to make green mark on 2016 Olympics

Landscape architect Gil Hanse, MLA '89, won the bid to design an environmentally sensitive golf course for the 2016 Olympics with CALS professor Frank Rossi. (March 12, 2012)

Provost stresses finding hope in the small things

At the March 1 Soup and Hope event, Provost Kent Fuchs described ways in which finding hope in daily life and finding hope in contributing to things that endure inform the way he views his life.