Peter Lepage, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will step down June 30, 2013. He will have served for 10 years, longer than all but one of the college's 19 previous deans.
Cornell researchers have found a way to build a zinc-anode battery that not only has a high energy density, but is low cost and stable, and has a life cycle that can be significantly prolonged.
Cornell Procurement Services has exceeded its savings goal of $30 million through process efficiencies and by changing the ways goods and services are bought for Cornell from outside vendors.
Alison Lurie will choose some of her shorter works – “things that are complete in themselves,” she said – for a reading Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Academic leaders have announced the creation of the new Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research and have named Richard Kiely as its director. (Oct. 3, 2011)
James Mwangi, CEO of African bank Equity Group Holdings – a banking conglomerate with the largest customer base on the African continent - spoke on campus Sept. 22 about his business philosophy.
Associate professor of city and regional planning Stephan Schmidt led students in a data collection workshop in Tanzania, with benefits for public health, wildlife conservation and land tenure.
Freshmen and incoming transfer students this fall will read and discuss French author Romain Gary's 1975 novel 'The Life Before Us' for the New Student Reading Project.
Designers and scholars will discuss contemporary environmental concerns related to the legacy of the landmark 1969 Earth Art exhibition at Cornell at a symposium Nov. 7-8.