The Starr Foundation is continuing its commitment to stem cell research with a $50 million gift supporting the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative, a collaboration involving Weill Cornell Medicine.
Rohit Verma, dean of external relations at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, has been named founding provost of Vin University in Hanoi, Vietnam. His three-year appointment is effective July 1.
Dong Lai, professor of astronomy at Cornell University and an expert on black holes, comments on an upcoming "groundbreaking" announcement from astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team.
Events include two Carl Becker Lecture Series talks by historian and author Michael Kazin; a lecture by wildlife conservationist and A.D. White Professor-At-Large Laurie Marker; Cornell Cinema’s screening of “Dragnet Girl,” accompanied live by the electronic group Coupler; and Swiss artist Elisabeth Masé in a conversation at the Johnson Museum.
Clinical immunologist Dr. Helen Su, who studies the genetic causes of rare immune system diseases in children, has been awarded the Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research by Weill Cornell Medicine.
The College of Veterinary Medicine has launched the Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship, a new interdisciplinary program intended to spur research, training and outreach.
Social Enterprise at Cornell hosted the first Startup Career Fair at Cornell March 27 to match local socially conscious startups with students seeking summer internships.
Ten Cornell faculty members in computer science and engineering have received Google Faculty Research Awards. Cornell has the third-highest number of recipients among the 80 institutions worldwide that received Google awards.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati – two-time Indonesian minister of finance, economic reformer and powerful advocate for gender equality and education – will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture April 10.
