A record number of students - 980 - will graduate in January, and the winter graduate recognition event celebrated their accomplishments Dec. 21 in Barton Hall.
At its December meeting, the Council of Graduate Schools named Vice Provost and Graduate School Dean Barbara Knuth chair-elect. She will serve a one-year term as board chair in 2015.
A medical scanning device, a microchip to detect cavities and a digital billboard system won three teams of student inventors Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovation awards Dec. 18.
A federal grant will enable the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives to digitize a century of collective bargaining contracts.
Chen Jian, Cornell’s Michael J. Zak Professor of History for U.S.-China Relations in the Department of History, has been named a Woodrow Wilson International Center global fellow.
Senate filibuster rules "get in the way of policy change that could reduce inequality of all kinds, including income inequality," says Cornell's Peter K. Enns. "Significant changes in policy won’t come without institutional reform.”
The Association of American Universities issued a statement in response to the American Studies Association resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Cornell President David Skorton signed the AAU statement as a member of its executive committee.
Two years to the day after Cornell won Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC competition, President David Skorton signed the lease for the city land on which Cornell NYC Tech will be built.
