Christine Shoemaker, the Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions for an engineer. Two Cornell alumni were also elected.
Three Cornell researchers will discuss mitigating climate change, biochar and the challenges of wheat rust, respectively, at the 2012 Association for Advancement of Science meeting, Feb. 16-20.
Twenty-eight of Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's essays are collected in a book edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg, published Jan. 23 by Oxford University Press.
Students have created a performance piece based on the life of A.D. White, in which the audience and the A.D. White House will be a part of performances Feb. 16-18.
For 60 Cornell students, winter break ended early: In January they applied what they had learned in the classroom by working for three weeks on 14 international development projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
President David Skorton has issued a statement on diversity, outlining goals to which he and Provosts Kent Fuchs and Laurie Glimcher have committed, and announcing a new University Diversity Council.
President Skorton and Provosts Kent Fuchs and Laurie Glimcher are directing the development of diversity goals through the University Diversity Council, with universitywide accountability.
John Siliciano, senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Yael Levitte, executive director for CU-ADVANCE, have been appointed to lead the university's efforts to increase its faculty diversity. They will also help advance the work of the University Diversity Council.
Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children, report two Cornell professors.
Part of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies 40th anniversary celebration was a panel discussion, 'Feminism Mapped,' with some of the program's founders and directors, Feb. 10.
