The new name - the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Division of Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College - became effective on Dec. 1, 2003. The official dedication ceremony took place on Feb. 2.
Geoffrey Coates, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, has been selected by 'Technology Review' magazine as one of 100 young innovators under the age of 35.
Historians from around the nation will visit Cornell in March for Women's History Month to speak on subjects ranging from single motherhood to women in American theater.
"There will be no genuine third party, and certainly no real transformation into a multiparty system, without a constitutional revolution," says Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell.
Noted architect and Harvard professor George Baird will be at Cornell University in April to discuss what constitutes "public" space in postindustrial America and how such space might be made vibrant.
With help from Cornell planners, residents of New Orleans' 9th Ward have been given a significant voice in how their community should be rebuilt following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. (Jan. 30, 2007)
Rabbi Mark L. Winer, senior rabbi at the Jewish Community Center/Kol Ami in White Plains, N.Y., and president of the National Council of Synagogues, will give a public lecture on Thursday, May 9, at 4:15 p.m. at the CafŽ in Anabel Taylor Hall.
Three Cornell seniors and one alumna receive Mellon Fellowships for graduate study. The recipients of the prestigious award, which includes a $13,500 stipend plus tuition and fees.
Germany's highest civilian award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Officer of the Cross of the Order of Merit), will be conferred on Klaus W. Beyenbach, Cornell professor of physiology.