Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Jan. 3) announced that he will recommend to the Board of Trustees the appointment of Harold D. Craft Jr. as vice president for administration and chief financial officer.
Cornell has been awarded an $8.5 million interest-free, seven-year loan from The Pew Charitable Trusts, for the development of programs in ethical reasoning and information sciences.
In the last decade of the 20th century, we saw a virtual cottage industry of books and films on the Holocaust, everything from an unexpurgated 'Diary of Anne Frank' to Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning tragicomic film 'Life Is Beautiful.'
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, visited Cornell Dec. 20, to hear from university researchers and administrators about how the federal government can help improve the process of bringing the fruits of the university's biotechnology research to market.
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, visited Cornell Dec. 20, to hear from university researchers and administrators about how the federal government can help improve the process of bringing the fruits of the university's biotechnology research to market.
Maury Tigner, who two decades ago helped design and build the half-mile-circumference accelerator at Cornell, has been named the next director of the operator of the huge device, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, one of the world's leading centers for elementary particle research.
An oversized, flatter and adjustable computer mouse with built-in palm support could lower the risk for carpal tunnel syndrome and other wrist injuries, according to a new study by Cornell University ergonomists.
The Cornell women's ice hockey team has snazzy new uniforms, thanks to the creativity of a class of undergraduate students in textiles and apparel in the university's College of Human Ecology.
Cornell's campus campaign for United Way of Tompkins County is the first and only United Way division this year to meet - and even exceed - its goal. As of Dec. 15, the university had raised $562,831.
People with disabilities - one in six of us - must surmount workplace obstacles that those without disabilities never even notice, everything from inaccessible work spaces to indifferent, or even intolerant, colleagues.
Two Cornell interior design classes didn't just build scale models, but the real thing - indoor play zones for child-care centers. The undergraduates planned, designed and built four child-care learning and play activity centers, or mini-playgrounds.
At the stroke of year 2000, celebrants throughout the Northeast might be dreaming of a white New Year's Day. Likely their dreams will come true -- if they are in Caribou, Maine, the Finger Lakes region of New York, or Burlington, Vt., according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
