The 56th Annual Service Recognition Dinner was held March 31 to recognize 268 long-serving staff members who have worked at Cornell for 25 or more years and were celebrating a fifth-year milestone. (April 7, 2011)
Thomas Whittlesey Leavitt, founding director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, professor emeritus of the history of art and a leader in the museum field, has died. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Under the director of Cornell Law School Professor Muna Ndulo, five of his students contributed research to a United Nations process to move Somalia from chaos to a federal government. (April 9, 2012)
African-Americans account for nearly 70 percent of all new HIV/AIDS cases, and teen pregnancy rates may be rising again. Text messaging may be one way to help address such daunting public health issues. (March 4, 2009)
Kathryn J. Boor, professor and chair of the Department of Food Science at Cornell, has been named the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Provost Kent Fuchs announced May 20.
Jon Kleinberg will give the Phi Beta Kappa invitational lecture "Mapping the Online World: Social Connectedness in the Digital Age," April 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall, Lewis Auditorium.
It was the warmest February in the Northeast since 1998 and the fourth warmest since 1895, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center. (March 7, 2012)