Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell University's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services. The five-year appointment is effective July 1.
Federal expenditures on cybersecurity research are 'tiny compared to the severity of the threat' and are too focused on plugging holes, Cornell computer scientist Fred Schneider told Congress June 10. (June 10, 2009)
The Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences New York State Agricultural Experiment Station has launched a new Web tool to help state grape growers identify prime grape-growing locations.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced June 19.
Louise Arbour, former United Nations high commissioner for human rights, discussed the need for more human rights work around the world at a lecture Oct. 21. (Oct. 27, 2008)
Ronald O. Perelman, chairman of MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings Inc., has made a $50 million gift to be equally divided between NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. (Feb. 28, 2008)
President Skorton spoke to a meeting of Cornell faculty Feb. 27, expressing his thanks for their help in the first 19 months of his presidency and outlining several recent university initiatives.
On Feb. 15, a diverse program performed by the Cornell Glee Club 'engendered a big, big, big response' from an audience of 1,000 choral directors. (Feb. 28, 2008)
In a major step toward understanding the mysterious 'pseudogap' state in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, researchers have found a 'broken symmetry' in their electronic structure. (July 14, 2010)
'The Song of the Vowels,' cubist Jacques Lipchitz's 10-foot-tall abstract sculpture, has returned to the Cornell campus after almost two years of conservation treatment. (June 12, 2007)