The seminar Guns: Myth and Manufacture explored the historical impact of firearms and connections between weaponry and architectural design including the use of interchangeable components.
Members of the Presidential Search Committee began with a list of more than 300 candidates, said Jan Rock Zubrow '77, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chair of the search committee.
Six custodial and housekeeping staff were recognized with the ninth annual Bartels Awards for Service Excellence Dec. 8 in Bartels Hall. Eight children of Cornell staff received Bartels scholarships.
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will lead an effort to help doctoral students strengthen dissertation research proposals with support from the Social Science Research Council.
Dmitry Bykov, one of Russia’s best-known public intellectuals, is a visiting critic in the Institute for European Studies, and will be engaging with Cornell faculty and students and completing several writing projects. His satirical poems and political commentaries often take aim at President Vladimir Putin, and have gotten him in trouble.
After a two-year strategic planning and engagement process, Cornell Plantations is looking to rebrand as Cornell Botanic Gardens, which will better reflect its mission, says Plantations Director Christopher Dunn.
Chemistry faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences have changed the curriculum to offer more options for their students, two-thirds of whom pursue careers that don’t require a graduate degree in chemistry.
Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have invalidated a previously reported molecular finding on triple negative breast cancer that many hoped would lead to targeted treatments for the aggressive disease.