A new endowed fund and an annual award for Ph.D. students finishing their dissertations on poetry have been established in memory of recent Cornell alumnus and poetry scholar Alan Young-Bryant.
Glenn Evans, the new director of agricultural operations for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, has sustainability as one of his primary goals. (May 10, 2011)
Computer science professor Jon Kleinberg will receive the 2013 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, considered the highest for technical excellence in knowledge discovery and data mining, from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Celebrating its first year of research projects in India, the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative briefed faculty and students on drinking-water system projects, research on iron nutrition for women, and a food fortification study.
The book 'The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning and Decision Making,' co-edited by Valerie Reyna, focuses on teen brain development and high cognition, which is critical for good reasoning. (Dec. 15, 2011)
Vice President Mary Opperman and Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant provided students with an update on campus initiatives that address issues of sexual violence Dec. 3.
Children often use language differently than adults do when referring to a person or thing, which can result in misleading testimony, according to a new Cornell study. (Aug. 6, 2012)
Alumni affairs employees who now work at Alumni House on campus will join the rest of the division at Seneca Place, in downtown Ithaca. (March 25, 2010)