Robert Kaul Finn '41, a pioneer in the field of biochemical engineering and professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell, died Nov. 3. He was 92. (Nov. 21, 2012)
President Barack Obama has announced that he will appoint G. Peter Lepage, physicist and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, to the National Science Board, which governs the National Science Foundation. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Along with these new finds, James Liebherr, professor and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has discovered about half of the 400 total known Mecyclothorax species. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Cornell's programs in undergraduate and graduate architecture, graduate landscape architecture and graduate interior design have been ranked in the Top 5 in DesignIntelligence's annual survey. (Nov. 20, 2012)
College of Arts and Sciences students Christopher 'Kit' Dobyns '13 and Daniel Young '13 are recipients of Rhodes Scholarships for 2013. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Ibrahim El-Salahi, one of the most influential figures in Sudanese modern art, will be on campus Nov. 28, in a visit arranged by Salah Hassan, curator of an exhibit on the artist. (Nov. 20, 2012)
A new internship will expose students to employment and community involvement opportunities in upstate New York so that they will later work in the state. (Nov. 20, 2012)
Health insurance should be included in official measures of U.S. income and poverty, because it will help us to better evaluate public policies like Obamacare, according to a Cornell economist. (Nov. 19, 2012)
With the help of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, scientists have come closer to designing the perfect organic semiconductor by mapping the microstructures of thin films. (Nov. 19, 2012)
Filled with such items as course catalogs and electronic devices, the College of Human Ecology's 10-feet-long time capsule will be opened during Cornell's bicentennial. (Nov. 19, 2012)
Alumnus Gordon Chang, a China expert, said China has entered into a period of economic decline and bad relations with its neighbors due to its expansionism and failure to reform. (Nov. 19, 2012)
