George D. and Harriet W. Cornell of Delray Beach, Fla., and Central Valley, N.Y., made history this October by making the largest scholarship gift ever given to Cornell, the Ivy-League research university in central New York state.
Scientists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are using the facilities and expertise of the Cornell Theory Center to turn reams of weather and climate data into practical advice for New York farmers.
William T. Miller, a key scientist on the Manhattan Project team that developed the atomic bomb in World War II and a member of the chemistry faculty at Cornell from 1936 to 1977, died Nov. 15 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca.
Anthony Seeger, curator of the Folkways Collection and director of Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution, will make his third visit to Cornell on March 24-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. On Wednesday, March 27, he will give a public talk entitled "From the Suy‡ Indians to the Grateful Dead: 'Thanks.' "
Mary F. Berens, a 1974 graduate of Cornell, has been appointed director of alumni affairs at the university, said Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Berens succeeds James D. Hazzard, a 1950 Cornell graduate.
Cornell is getting medieval this weekend as it hosts the 17th International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History at the Statler Hotel, Saturday, Nov. 14, through Tuesday, Nov. 17.
What Peter Meinig called 'truly an auspicious day for Cornell,' interim President Hunter R. Rawlings called 'a very sad day in Iowa City, Iowa.' The day was Saturday, and the man Rawlings was referring to was Cornell's newly named 12th president, David Skorton.
Both Hunter Rawlings and David Skorton hail from the University of Iowa - known as the Hawkeyes in the athletic arena. And yet the transition from the Big Ten to the Ivy League is one between two institutions that on many accounts are surprisingly similar.
Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories, will deliver a public lecture as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor during his visit to Cornell University Feb. 6-9. Scolnick's lecture.
Mathematician Paul Olum, who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, became chair of the mathematics department at Cornell and then provost and president of the University of Oregon, died Jan. 19.