Dr. Laurie Glimcher, a leading physician-scientist and researcher, has been named Cornell's provost for medical affairs and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean at Weill Cornell Medical College effective Jan. 1, 2012. (Sept. 7, 2011)
For a research project in one of her courses last semester, Cornell graduate student Vera Palmer drove a total of 1,000 miles on 10 Friday evenings to lead a workshop on Native American literature and culture for inmates at Auburn State Prison.
The Hermanos of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. of Cornell and the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County are hosting the third annual Latino Street Festival, Saturday, May 1, in downtown Ithaca.
The New York State 4-H Foundation, administered by Cornell Cooperative Extension, has awarded $18,000 in college scholarships to 15 outstanding members of the 4-H Youth Development program from across the state. The New York 4-H Opportunity Scholarship Program was announced last summer at the 2002 State Fair in Syracuse to celebrate the National Centennial of 4-H Youth Development. The foundation and its donors wanted to provide dedicated, hardworking youth with scholarships to pursue a collegiate education. (July 22, 2003)
The setting is the same as it has been for more than 1,200 Sundays -- a modest stage, some microphones, coffee brewing nearby and a small, engaged audience.
WVBR's "Bound For Glory," a beacon for folk-music lovers, is celebrating…
Six Cornell University seniors, all women, went to New York City this past summer hoping to learn how to crack Wall Street's infamous glass ceiling — that invisible, impermeable surface their mothers merely scratched.
Charles Walcott, professor of neurobiology and behavior, has been appointed to a two-year term as director of the Cornell Division of Biological Sciences.
The writer and reporter Damon Runyon captured New York City's colorful lowlifes of the 1920s and '30s so indelibly that his legacy still lives on in American popular culture. So says Cornell University Professor of English Daniel Schwarz. His new book, Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture, was released this spring by Palgrave Macmillan and is now in bookstores. (June 30, 2003)
A panel of experts will lead a symposium titled "Community, Communication and the Responsibility of the Individual" Friday, June 9, from 4 to 5:15 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Benjamin Widom, Cornell University Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, is honored with a special issue of the journal Molecular Physics. (November 15, 2005)