A search committee appointed by Cornell Board of Trustees Chair Bob Harrison will receive input from various constituencies on who should be the university's next leader. The 19-member committee includes faculty, students, staff, alumni and trustees.
Cornell’s Office of Community Relations won the Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemaker Award Jan. 17 awarded by the Community Dispute Resolution Center and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.
An interdisciplinary team of Ithaca and Weill Cornell researchers have created an artificial implant to replace intervertebral discs in the spinal column. (Aug. 1, 2011)
Cornell has received a bronze award by the League of American Bicyclists for having a long history of promoting bicycle transportation on campus. (March 30, 2011)
Cornell is the fifth-greenest university in the world, according to the GreenMetric Ranking of World Universities, a new ranking system by the University of Indonesia. (Jan. 7, 2011)
A new book traces the career of Cornell's eighth president Dale Corson, which includes the discovery of a missing element in the periodic table and the design of the university's first synchrotron. (Sept. 2, 2009)
Professor of English Satya Mohanty's recent book of critical essays, a collaboration with international scholars, offers several cross-cultural views of Indian literature and modernity. (Nov. 8, 2011)
Susan Riha, Cornell's Charles L. Pack Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been appointed director of the New York State Water Resources Institute. (Oct. 4, 2007)