On Monday morning, July 10, David Skorton's Day Hall office was nearly bare: clean white walls, empty bookshelves, subdued olive and beige furniture and the light smell of fresh paint. Just a few personal touches had crept in --…
Some rarely seen symbols of office will emerge from university vaults for Cornell President David J. Skorton's inauguration. The symbolism dates back to the first inauguration on Oct. 7, 1868, when New York Lt. Gov. Stewart L…
With great expectations Cornell will officially enter "the Skorton era" on Sept. 7. In a lively and colorful ceremony on the Arts Quad, David J. Skorton will be inaugurated as Cornell's 12th president.
The historic day's events…
One year after the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, three lifelong residents of New Orleans will speak on a panel commem orating the anniversary of the storm that changed the Crescent City, and much of the Gulf…
Porus Olpadwala, professor of city and regional planning, will be the first professor and dean of Hans Bethe House, which opens officially in August 2007.
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Cornell President David Skorton addresses the Class of 2010, Aug. 19 in Barton Hall.
"I want to ask each student here to find a way to put yourself into an uncomfortable situation," said Cornell…
Cornell will bar investments of its endowment assets in oil companies currently operating in Sudan as a response to the genocide in Darfur, Cornell President David Skorton announced today. It also will ban investing in…
Making his second visit to the Cornell campus in a week, New York Gov. George Pataki again brought funding, this time $12 million for preliminary work on the proposed Energy Recovery Linac (ERL), which will help create the…
William M. Trochim, professor of policy analysis and management in Cornell's College of Human Ecology, has been elected president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) for 2007-09.
AEA is an international professional…
A woman driving a white minivan pulled up to the information booth on Hoy Road at Cornell and rolled down her window.
"I'm trying to get to Bartels Hall to register," she said, slightly breathless. Her husband in sunglasses sat…
U.S. News and World Report has placed Cornell at the top of its rankings for best undergraduate engineering science/engineering physics program for the second year in a row. In overall rankings, Cornell tied for 12th place. (Aug. 18, 2006)
Eight weeks ago, none of the 10 students -- eight undergraduates and two on their way to graduate school, from around the United States and the Caribbean -- quite knew what they were getting into. They came to Cornell for a taste…
