The Weill Greenberg Center, named for Maurice Greenberg, a member of the Weill Cornell Medical College Board of Overseers, and Sanford I. Weill, chairman of the board, was officially named at a Jan. 26 ceremony. (Jan. 29, 2007)
Professor of Romance Studies Philip E. Lewis has been appointed vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Liberal Arts Colleges Program, effective Feb. 1. (Jan. 29, 2007)
Benjamin Bagby, a performer and specialist in early music, will be presenting a live reading Feb. 8 of the epic poem Beowulf in the original Old English. (Jan. 29, 2007)
With record warmth throughout the Northeast in December and early January, gardeners and commercial growers are asking: 'Will the warm weather wither my plants?'
Cornell produced more Peace Corps volunteers than any other Ivy League institution in 2006 and ranked third among like schools nationally, according to statistics released by the federal agency. (Jan. 26, 2007)
A three-member Cornell student team will compete in the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, March 12-16, at Tokyo Disneyland Resort in Maihama, Japan. (Jan. 26, 2007)
The Law School professor has been appointed 'special master' by Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to investigate the lawsuits regarding respiratory illnesses of workers cleaning up the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001. (Jan. 26, 2007)
Cornell's Institute for European Studies has received a grant that will provide outreach opportunities and will pair Ithaca with Elios Proni, Greece, located on the island of Cephalonia. (Jan. 26, 2007)
Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, the Whiton Professor of Classics emeritus and a renowned scholar of the ancient world, died at his Ithaca home Jan. 16. (Jan. 26, 2007)
Quinetta Roberson, the first African American to receive tenure in Cornell's ILR School, has been recognized by Diverse Issues in Higher Education as one of the top ten emerging scholars for 2007. (Jan. 24, 2007)
The Second Annual 21 Dinner will be held Saturday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. in Bridgewaters in New York City to celebrate the life and legacy of Mario St. George Boiardi '04. (Jan. 24, 2007)
