Two Cornell faculty members have received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to conduct research abroad during their sabbatical years.
Harold G. Craighead, director of Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center and professor of applied and engineering physics, has been named interim dean of the College of Engineering, according to Cornell Provost Biddy Martin.
Three Cornell students are among 85 students nationwide honored with prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies for 2001, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Five graduate students at the Cornell Center for the Environment are among 16 nationwide to receive 2001 Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research awards.
This summer, a new joint graduate program in chemical biology will open its doors to welcome nine students in its entering class to the world of biomedical science in New York City.
Cornell officials announced today that the search for a developer for the proposed downtown Ithaca office building has led to detailed negotiations with Ciminelli Development Company Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. The university will be a major tenant in the mixed-use facility, to be located on or near the Ithaca Commons.
Community development professionals, government officials and citizens who want to improve the economic vitality of New York's municipalities are invited to a conference, "Social Trends and Outlook 2001: Building Economically Healthy Communities in New York State," June 4-6.
Five months of negotiations with the city of Ithaca, and then a complex array of abstract illuminated fabric sculptures suspended 17 feet over Ithaca City Hall Plaza until May 21.
Seven Cornell students have been selected to participate in the inaugural Henry and Nancy Horton Bartels Undergraduate Action Research Fellowship Program.
Graduates in the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club won't have much time to dwell on their accomplishments. On Memorial Day, May 28 the Glee Club and Chorus will hop a 5 p.m. flight from New York to Caracas, Venezuela.
With predictions of a 20 to 30 percent increase in enrollment at colleges and universities in many states in the decade ahead, higher education institutions face unprecedented funding challenges.
With almost a century of experience, 93-year-old Elsie Frost McMurry, professor emerita at Cornell, played dress detective for 16 years, researching and writing in longhand thousands of manuscript pages for her study of American dresses from the 1800s.
