Jeffrey Gettleman '94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting April 16. He was cited for vivid reporting at personal peril. (April 16, 2012)
Cornell Procurement Services won the 19th annual Achievement of Excellence in Procurement award for 2014 from the National Procurement Institute , a national network of purchasing and supply management professionals.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
New research identified for the first time a random patterning mechanism that decides the size of cells found in the sepals – the leaf-like covering of petals in a bud – of flowering plants.
Glenn Martin shared his experiences as a former convict and a reformer of the U.S. criminal justice system in the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service Lecture Sept. 27.
Cornell has submitted an expression of interest proposal to New York City to create a new applied sciences and engineering research center and campus in the Big Apple.
Julie Nucci proposes an integrated approach to solving the STEM pipeline crisis, which includes keeping the CNS Institute for Physics Teachers alive. (Oct. 1, 2012)
Researchers observed a mass of atoms cooled almost to absolute zero so that they could "tunnel" from place to place. But as long as the observation continued, no tunneling occurred.
Lynn Ross, MRP '01, detailed her journey as a planner, from her earliest interest in the field to her current position in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, during a talk April 22.