Human resource studies professor Lisa Nishii has been appointed vice provost for undergraduate education and classics professor Michael Fontaine has been named associate vice provost, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced Dec. 1.
National 4-H Council president and CEO Jennifer Sirangelo was hosted by Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City Jan. 27 in a tour of the Food and Finance High School's Hydroponics, Aquaculture, Aquaponics Learning Labs.
The current and former directors of Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva were honored by Hobart and William Smith Colleges. (May 18, 2011)
Cornell undergraduate students from a geophysics class will deploy a network of 15 seismometers around campus into the late fall, through which they will collect data for a year.
Teach For America has accepted 33 Cornellians into its roster of teachers beginning this fall, seven of whom are first-generation graduates. Ava Ramsundar '17 and Travis Ghirdharie '17 explain why they were interested in the program.
Cornell will mark the launch of its access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives with a talk by columnist and Rwandan genocide expert Philip Gourevitch '86, Nov. 3.
A resident of Rochester, N.Y., writes how much he appreciated that Cornell student volunteers helped out in Owego after the recently flooding there. (Sept. 20, 2011)
Cornell Law School has signed an agreement with the KoGuan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University to increase educational cooperation and exchange between the two institutions. (Sept. 16, 2011)
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell's Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, has been appointed a fellow by The Century Foundation, a progressive nonpartisan think tank. (Jan. 18, 2012)
Looking beyond garment trends to global social impact, students from the Cornell Environmental Collaborative organized the Ecouture Environmental Fashion Show Feb. 19.