After an extensive search, Andrew Thompson Miller has been named associate vice provost for academic diversity initiatives. Currently at the University of Michigan, he will assume his new position July 1. (May 2, 2011)
Professor Rui Hai Liu and Professor Emeritus Malcolm Bourne, both of food science, have been honored with awards from the Institute of Food Technologists. (May 2, 2011)
Students in Staffing Organizations classes conduct intergenerational research that could inform Cornell's faculty and staff recruitment and retention efforts. (April 28, 2011)
Buhrman, senior vice provost for research, will take on the additional, newly created post of vice president for technology transfer, intellectual property and research policy. (April 28, 2011)
Vice Presidents Mary Opperman and Susan Murphy expressed appreciation for the work of Cornell's office professionals at the annual celebration, which was held April 27. (April 28, 2011)
Ernest F. Schaufler, a professor emeritus of horticulture who worked in the Cornell Cooperative Extension program as the 4-H club specialist in ornamental horticulture, died at 87. (April 28, 2011)
Peter Davies, a Cornell plant physiologist, will serve as an adviser to the U.S. government on agricultural and food policy issues as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. Department of State. (April 27, 2011)
Cornell President David Skorton, chemist Geoffrey Coates, physicist Sol Gruner and mathematician Laurent Saloff-Coste are among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (April 21, 2011)
