Dexter Kozen, M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’77, the Joseph Newton Pew Jr. Professor in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science, will receive the W. Wallace McDowell Award for contributions to computing.
With the coronavirus pandemic having forced courses and other events online and temporarily ending campus tours and visits, this year represents a unique challenge for those who plan outreach to and programming for accepted students in the incoming Class of 2024.
James Forman Jr. analyzed the roots of mass incarceration and how society can stop their spread at the capstone lecture for the Institute for the Social Sciences’ 2015-18 Mass Incarceration theme project.
Stephan Loewentheil, J.D. ’75, has donated a rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln to Cornell University Library in honor of retiring university librarian Anne Kenney.
Seth M. Siegel, author of "Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World," discussed spreading awareness of the global water problem before it becomes a humanitarian crisis Feb. 6.
With the decline in national media science coverage, the NSF is trying to fill the gaps using creative approaches on the Internet, radio and television, said the agency's public affairs director, Jeff Nesbit, in a campus visit May 13. (May 15, 2008)