With completion of construction on West Campus, the Hasbrouck apartment complex is back to housing only graduate students, families, visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows. (Sept. 2, 2008)
A new family leave for staff policy becomes effective today, Sept. 1. This new policy is intended to grant benefits-eligible staff members time off to care for their newborn, newly adopted or foster-care children and for seriously ill family members.
Condensed matter physicist Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics emeritus, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (June 30, 2008)
Mann Library has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to make digital scientific data available to other academic and government repositories. (Nov. 20, 2007)
The Cornell Recycle Center will accept such home and office electronic items as computers, TVs, microwaves, CDs and tape players to recycle, March 18-22.
Kaushik Basu, the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, professor of economics and director of Cornell's Center for Analytic Economics, received India's prestigious title of 'Padma Bhushan' in January. (Feb. 6, 2008)