Tulane University musicologist John Joyce and his daughter, Maggie, an undergrad at Tulane, are returning to that New Orleans campus after spending the semester at Cornell. (December 13, 2005)
Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died.
A "Chordash-built home" is synonymous to many Ithacans as a home of quality. Chordash Builders, which constructed and remodeled numerous homes in Ithaca from the 1950s to the early 1970s, was owned by Michael A. Chordash and his wife.
Walter Isard, professor emeritus of city and regional planning and economics, has died at age 91. Isard was an influential scholar who founded the fields of regional science and peace science. (Nov. 11, 2010)
Filled with such items as course catalogs and electronic devices, the College of Human Ecology's 10-feet-long time capsule will be opened during Cornell's bicentennial. (Nov. 19, 2012)
Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, India's largest and most successful business conglomerate, will give the 2006 Hatfield address, Monday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Kennedy Hall's Call…
Groundbreaking for the $4.5 million Bailey Hall plaza project is scheduled for Monday, March 19, weather permitting. Completion is expected by Aug. 17. (March 13, 2007)
A collection of glass lantern slides that provides a snapshot of the history of design through the 1950s and 1960s, from prefabricated housing to room interiors and furniture, has been donated to Cornell University's Rare and Manuscript Collections at Kroch Library. The slides document the work of Ruby Loper, New York state's first female extension architect. Many of the slides -- positive transparencies sandwiched between two 3 14-inch by 4-inch glass plates -- are thought to have been taken by Cornell photographer Jon Troy and used by Loper both for teaching and research. Loper worked at Cornell from 1946 to 1967 and died in 1990. (April 11, 2003)