Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell University, has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra.
At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium Aug. 26-27, Cornell professor Eswar Prasad said emerging economies can improve their stability by avoiding advanced economies' debt. (Sept. 1, 2011)
Cornell will match the need-based financial aid from other Ivy League schools and strive to match the financial aid from Duke, MIT and Stanford. (Dec. 7, 2010)
Cornell University's Kids Growing Food program is accepting grant applications from elementary and secondary schoolteachers in New York state. The grants will help teachers establish or maintain a food garden on school grounds.
'I believe in God, only I spell it nature,' said author Diane Ackerman, Ph.D. '97. She spoke Sept. 2, kicking off Sage Chapel's new fall series, Sage Wednesdays, held Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. (Sept. 8, 2009)
Alan Mathios, senior associate dean for academic affairs and undergraduate education in the College of Human Ecology, will serve as interim dean, effective July l. (March 23, 2007)
Assistant Professor of English Ernesto Quinonez read from and recalled the book tour for his first novel 'Bodega Dreams' at the final Literary Luncheon of the semester Dec. 2.
British historian and Merrill Family Visiting Professor Andrew Roberts gives a public lecture in defense of Winston Churchill’s legacy, Nov. 7 at 5:30 p.m. in 196 Statler Hall.
James C. Morgan, chairman of Applied Materials Inc., will give this academic year's Hatfield address Thursday, Oct. 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall. Morgan's company is the world's largest producer of semiconductor equipment -- the systems used to manufacture virtually every new microchip in the world. Morgan, who holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering (1960) and an MBA (1963) from Cornell, will deliver a talk titled "The Networked, High-Tech Economy: New Systems Require New Thinking." He will speak as the 24th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education, the highest honor the university bestows on outstanding individuals from the corporate sector, and he will be introduced by Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman. The talk is free and open to the public. (September 30, 2003)
A study of zebrafish larvae published Aug. 9 in the journal eLife for the first time reveals a circuit that determines the direction of a lightning-quick turn to escape a predator.