Joan and Sanford Weill and the Weill Family Foundation have accelerated a previous pledge to the university with a $170 million cash payment. Their donation will aid the $4 billion campaign. (April 8, 2009)
Francine Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics, and five Cornell students were honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) as new fellows for 2005 on April 10. The AAPSS designates new fellows each year "to recognize and honor individual social scientists for their distinguished scholarship in the social sciences, sustained efforts to communicate that scholarship to audiences beyond their own discipline and professional activities that promise to continue to promote the progress of the social sciences."
As Cornell University restructures its life sciences with the New Life Sciences Initiative, constructs new buildings, upgrades its infrastructure and hires new faculty members, university officials stress that improving graduate…
The Community Partnership Board on Dec. 2 awarded more than $20,000 in grant monies to Cornell University-student-initiated, grassroots service-learning projects.
Nov. 6 marked the sixth annual Cornell trip to the United Nations; 79 Cornellians spent the day touring the organization and meeting U.N. experts, who spoke on topics the students requested. (Nov. 11, 2009)
Government professor Christopher Anderson, a former semi-pro soccer player, has launched a statistically based soccer blog. He predicts Brazil will take the cup in South Africa this summer. (June 9, 2010)
More than 4,300 new students are arriving at Cornell starting this Friday, Aug. 20, when campus residence halls open their doors at 8 a.m. This year Cornell expects to enroll roughly 3,100 freshmen, 564 new undergraduate transfer students and 610 new graduate and professional students.
A new study using a computer algorithm developed at Cornell shows that connections between people in Great Britain coincide remarkably well with political boundaries. (Dec. 20, 2010)
A memorial service for Alan Comerford, a Cornell University student who died Nov. 20, will be held Friday, Nov. 30, at 4 p.m. in the Founders Room of Anabel Taylor Hall.