Condensed matter physicist Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics emeritus, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (June 30, 2008)
Kent Kleinman, a professor and department chair at Parsons The New School for Design, has been selected as the new Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He will begin his five-year term Sept. 1. (June 26, 2008)
The cure for what ails the American method of electing a president is a dose of parliament, says Ted Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell. (June 25, 2008)
Mathios, who has served as interim dean since July 2007, has been appointed the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology for a five-year term, beginning July 1. (June 24, 2008)
Cornell Law School student Nicholas A. Dorsey '09 won the 2008 Judge Bernard S. Meyer Scholarship for his winning legal essay on the Americans with Disabilities Act. (June 24, 2008)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Cornell professor will serve as AMC's public face and primary representative for its membership, beginning July 1. (June 24, 2008)
Michael Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, has received the Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. (June 23, 2008)
The 53rd Service Recognition Dinner in Bartels Hall, June 9, honored Cornell's staff who have been at the university 25 years or more on the occasion of their five-year anniversaries, and those with more than 40 years of service. (June 23, 2008)
