An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (April 26, 2012)
Daniel Mendelsohn, an author, journalist and professor of classics at Princeton University, is winner of the 2001-02 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
President Barack Obama has appointed Linda Nozick, professor of civil and environmental engineering, to serve as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. (Aug. 17, 2011)
The Qur'an, Islam's sacred text, offers Muslim women the same rights as men, according to a new book, Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading, by Nimat Hafez Barazangi, a research fellow in Cornell's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.
In a joint statement, President David Skorton and Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick affirm values of civility and tolerance following a reported bias incident early Sunday morning in Collegetown. (Aug. 20, 2012)
Leon Heppel, a Cornell professor emeritus of biochemistry and a former National Institutes of Health scientist, died of complications from a respiratory infection April 9 in Ithaca, N.Y. (April 21, 2010)
A study of tobacco hornworm caterpillars and stink bugs that feed on them shows that these caterpillars employ an unusual strategy to survive being eaten, but pay a price.
The Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs surveyed students in 11 Oregon schools following the banning of chocolate milk.
New measurements at Cornell have shown that 'high-temperature' superconductors may have the potential to go even higher, offering the possibility of creating room-temperature superconductors. (Aug. 27, 2009)
Luc Gnacadja, former executive director of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, will deliver Cornell’s 2014 Iscol lecture Tuesday, April 22, at 5 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.