The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $25 million to Cornell to support the construction of the signature building for a planned information campus.
David Skorton, Cornell's newly named president, is a man from Iowa who admits he hasn't a clue about ice hockey, and certainly no understanding of the rituals of the Lynah Faithful.
The Cornell Board of Trustees' Jan. 21 vote endorsing David Skorton as the 12th president of the university was unanimous, and thanks to an amended bylaw, 19 members of the board were able to vote.
A renewed grant from the Merck Company Foundation is enabling Cornell researchers affiliated with the Consumers, Pharmaceutical Policy and Health (CPPH) program in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM).
The Board of Trustees approved a set of planning parameters for the 2006-07 budget that calls for a 4.8 percent tuition increase for most students in the endowed colleges, setting tuition at $32,800 for the 2006-07 academic year.
Faculty, academic staff, and junior and senior students are invited to nominate tenured faculty members for the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows Award.
Cornell Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Stephen Golding has accepted the resignation of Don Fehrs as the chief investment officer of Cornell's Investment Office.
In fulfilling Cornell's land-grant mission to serve the state of New York, Cornell professor Nina Bassuk applies her research on growing plants and trees in urban areas by helping communities in the state better manage their urban forests.
It's time to let the cat out of the bag. The Lynx, of course. Lynx links faculty with new instructional technologies. How? by having certified students assist faculty at no charge.
Daniel J. Decker, Cornell professor in the Department of Natural Resources, has been named director of the new Office of Land-Grant Affairs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
What Peter Meinig called 'truly an auspicious day for Cornell,' interim President Hunter R. Rawlings called 'a very sad day in Iowa City, Iowa.' The day was Saturday, and the man Rawlings was referring to was Cornell's newly named 12th president, David Skorton.
