The Hope and Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations project has received nearly $2 million from Cornell and the University of Notre Dame to fund 18 research projects on hope and optimism.
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing has received a High-Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award for crunching hepatitis C virus data on its experimental MATLAB computing resource. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Breaking Bread, an initiative that brings together different communities, identities, groups and organizations for dinner and facilitated discussions, received the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.
Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy encourages all students to take advantage of campus support services to help in dealing with physical or emotional stress that comes with the end of the semester.
The fences are up; the orange-vested workers are gathering. Construction for the future home of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physics, and Applied and Engineering Physics has officially begun. (Sept. 24, 2007)
Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes has been appointed to the board of trustees of King Abdullah University for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. (Oct. 7, 2008)
Francisco Bastos de Oliveira, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell, was awarded the 2010 Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellowship from Cornell's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. (Sept. 15, 2010)
To give the humanities and social sciences a new focus on campus, an Office of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications has been established within Cornell's Division of University Communications.