President David Skorton delivered Cornell's 143rd commencement May 29, welcoming about 6,000 new graduates to the global Cornell family. (May 29, 2011)
Interdisciplinary computer scientist Daniel Huttenlocher has been named dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, as of July 1. He succeeds Robert Constable, whose second five-year term ends June 30.
Three student projects received 2016 Robinson-Appel Humanitarian awards April 15. The Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award is facilitated by the Cornell Public Service Center.
To address such pressing health challenges in the world as HIV/AIDS and malnutrition in developing nations, Cornell has established an innovative Global Health Program, a collaborative effort between Cornell's Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. (Feb. 9, 2007)
The transformative global, cultural and societal impacts of the Tata Nano automobile will be discussed March 10-11 at a symposium, 'Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World's Most Affordable Car.' (March 3, 2011)
The Theory Reading Group is hosting a conference at Cornell, "Listening to Trauma," April 27-28, on Cathy Caruth's influential book, "Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History."
Six Cornell M.F.A. students presented their work at Poem In Your Pocket Day in Manhattan's Bryant Park April 27. Also reading were teachers, students and professors from NYC high schools and universities. (May 1, 2007)
Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors has been recognized with a 2006 New York State Innovation in Breast Cancer Early Detection and Research Award. (March 26, 2007)
Researchers used theoretical calculations to understand exactly why and how a particular crystalline ceramic, a layered perovskite, is simultaneously ferroelectric and ferromagnetic. (May 16, 2011)
The Class of 1937 looks to set an attendance record for its 75th reunion and Michelle Rhee '92 will deliver the annual Olin Lecture June 8 in Bailey Hall, as part of Reunion 2012 weekend, June 7-10.