Robert S. Harrison '76, a Cornell trustee, has endowed the directorship of Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. The position currently is held by sociology Professor David Harris, who recently was named vice provost for social sciences.
Cornell University photographer Kevin Stearns, 48, died Nov. 16 at Hospicare in Ithaca. Stearns was an artist with a lens whose work regularly graced the pages of the Cornell Chronicle.
Paul Alivisatos, the fall 2011 Bethe lecturer, explained the science behind the evidence that human activity is causing global warming, Sept. 28. (Sept. 30, 2011)
At its March 9 meeting, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution discouraging professors from assigning extra academic work over breaks. (March 17, 2011)
A planned telescope known as CCAT, proposed and led by Cornell scientists, has received strong endorsement from a national panel charged with setting priorities in astronomy for the next decade. (Aug. 16, 2010)
This spring, the last two of the original five West Campus house professor-deans - Jefferson Cowie and Shirley Samuels - will wind down their final semesters as their houses' intellectual leaders. (March 27, 2012)
Susanna Throop, a May 2000 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a 1996 graduate of Newfield High School, has been awarded the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Trust Scholarship inaugurated this year.
As the new director of the Cornell Population Center, professor Dan Lichter is uniting Cornell scholars from across campus to apply demography to pressing social and political issues. (March 26, 2012)
Frank DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been reappointed to a three-year term as director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future effective July 1. (Sept. 12, 2012)