Thanks in part to an aggressive new fellowship program, Cornell's Graduate School enrollment shows a healthy increase this fall, boosted primarily by a big jump in doctoral students in the physical sciences and engineering.
Suzy M. Nelson has been named to lead Cornell's active Greek life system, John L. Ford, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students, has announced.
In a commentary published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, President David Skorton calls on the higher education community to help the country solves its most pressing challenges. (Nov. 21, 2008)
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D., the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, announced today that Sanford I. Weill and his wife, Joan, and Maurice R. Greenberg and his wife, Corinne, are giving $150 million to the medical college.
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings made this announcement to the campus community today, Nov. 13: The national economic downturn and the aftermath of the events of Sept. 11 have sent shock waves throughout our nation and abroad.
Dr. Alfonso Torres, deputy administrator for veterinary services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, has been named director of the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory.
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the university's Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
George McTurnan Kahin, a specialist on Southeast Asia and the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell, died Jan. 29, 2000. He was 82.
Having his acclaimed book of literary criticism, "The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition," ranked as No. 25 in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books written in English during the past 100 years doesn't seem to have fazed M.H. (Mike) Abrams.