Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design, has been awarded the 2007 Educator of the Year in Higher Education honor from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. (Sept. 5, 2007)
Dean Joe Thomas sat down this week with Cornell Chronicle writer Anne Ju to discuss some of his ideas and goals as he takes over leadership of the Johnson School. (March 27, 2008)
As part of Black History Month, a veterinary student looks back to learn more about the first black veterinarians in the United States who were educated at Cornell. (Feb. 18, 2011)
Paul A. Marks, professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and alumnus Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak were elected to the APS, the oldest learned society in the United States. (May 21, 2007)
Cornell University’s Sigma Xi chapter – the chapter that founded the scientific research honor society almost 130 years ago – has been awarded its first Chapter of Excellence Award for 2013 by the group’s national executives.
A streamlining initiative is enhancing the depth and breadth of university communications and is on track to meet a 2015 savings goal of $500,000 nearly three years early. (Nov. 3, 2011)
Barbara Viniar is the new executive director of the Institute for Community College Development (ICCD) at Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Extension Division, starting today (July 21). The institute was created in 2001 to help community colleges worldwide meet societal needs for training and education and provide valuable education and professional development for community college administrators and faculty members. Founded through an agreement between the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell, ICCD originally was housed in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Education. It moved to ILR's Extension Division, the outreach and public service arm of the school, in the summer of 2002. (July 21, 2003)
New research by Max Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, targets diesel-fueled large trucks as the biggest culprits for polluting the air in and around Beijing. (Sept. 28, 2010)