News & Events

Ynte Schukken named honorary chair at University of Ghent

Chosen from an international pool of candidates, epidemiologist Ynte Schukken was nominated for the award by faculty at the University of Ghent's College of Veterinary Medicine. (Feb. 24, 2010)

Engineering professor Kenneth Torrance dies at 69

Torrance, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died suddenly Feb. 15 as the result of a heart attack. (Feb. 23, 2010)

National Academy of Engineering honors professors, trustee

Professors Thomas W. Parks and Stephen B. Pope have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, and trustee N.R. Narayana Murthy has been elected a foreign associate. (Feb. 23, 2010)

CU marks 10 years of diversity efforts by planning for future

Lynette Chappell-Williams reviews past accomplishments of the Office of Workforce Diversity and Inclusion and future plans.

Park and Bindel are named Sloan fellows

Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry, and David Bindel, assistant professor of computer science, have been named 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for outstanding early career success. (Feb. 22, 2010)

Ehsan Afshari receives early career award from NSF

The five-year, $400,000 award will fund Afshari's ongoing research into circuits that can generate signals at terahertz frequencies.

Wendt retires as director of transportation

William Wendt, director of transportation and mail services, has announced he will retire March 1, after 32 years at Cornell. (Feb. 22, 2010)

Bill Gordon, father of Arecibo Observatory, dies at 92

Gordon was the Walter R. Reed Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell in 1958 when he began designing the radio telescope to study the Earth's upper atmosphere and nearby space.

Abrams' legacy collected in print, multimedia and online

'M.H. Abrams at Cornell University,' with text and multimedia materials on the career and legacy of the influential scholar, joins an online digital archive of biographies and department histories. (Feb. 18, 2010)