The new health care reform law will prompt some changes in Cornell's health plans: Most notably, any child up to age 26 may be covered under a parent's health plan, effective January 2011. (April 15, 2010)
Kotlikoff will begin his second five-year term July 1, 2012. Among his priorities will be the college's capital plan, renewing the faculty and expanding groundbreaking translational programs.
As one of 30 Kauffman fellow finalists selected this year, Aaron Holiday, MBA '12, will aim to work for two years for a leading venture capital firm. (April 11, 2012)
The Presidential Search Committee will hold three open forums April 28: for staff members, noon-1 p.m., Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall; for faculty, 4:45-6 p.m., PepsiCo Auditorium, Stocking Hall; and for students, 4:45-6 p.m., Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall.
Thirty-six staff members were recognized by President Skorton at the annual staff graduate reception May 21, Friends Hall, for completing higher education degrees.
A panel discussion and screening of "Human Again," professor Bruce Levitt's documentary about a theater program in the Auburn Correctional Facility, is June 10 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
New York could rival California as a technology hot spot, but it must focus on commercializing research from its world-class universities, according to a report by a task force led by President David Skorton. (Dec. 15, 2009)
Michael Mazourek, Cornell's new Calvin Noyes Keeney Professor of Plant Breeding, engineers designer vegetables and fruits, such as black-and-white cukes and pear-flavored melons. (Sept. 19, 2011)
Coffee hours at the Carl Sagan Institute have spurred multi-disciplinary talks among faculty members from 11 departments and five colleges and schools at Cornell.