Frank H.T. Rhodes, professor of geological sciences and president emeritus at Cornell University, has been elected president of the American Philosophical Society (APS) for a three-year term.
Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, has been named to lead a newly established program to integrate the life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The July 18 anniversary celebration featured a panel discussion with Cornell astronomers, who recounted the significance of the Apollo 11 moon landing and layered it with historical context. (July 20, 2009)
To play PhotoCity, you have to get up from your computer and walk around campus. The game knits together still photos of an object taken from many angles to create a 3-D model of the Cornell campus. (Feb. 24, 2010)
Cornell students affiliated with the Immigrant Farmworker Initiative visit farms to teach these workers English. They also work on campus to raise awareness about farmworker issues.
Stephen Marschner, assistant professor of computer science, is the recipient of a 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship that recognizes his work in computer graphics.
The fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provide support…
Mike Whalen donated Cornell student scrapbooks and other memorabilia, including a photo of William Bowler, one of two Haitian students in 1869, to Cornell University Library. (Feb. 18, 2010)
The Cornell Public Service Center has announced that 1997 Cornell alumna and staff member Darael Mahoney, of Erin, N.Y., has been awarded a 1999 echoing green Fellowship.
Liberation, not equality, should be the goal of social justice, asserted Amber Hollibaugh, an activist for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, in Cornell's Lewis auditorium, March 4.