In a few months, nearly every home in Atima, Honduras, will have safe, clean drinking water, thanks to a treatment plant principally designed by Cornell engineering students. (Jan. 26, 2012)
Morten Christiansen, Cornell associate professor of psychology, has been awarded a 2005-06 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Christiansen was selected from a pool of 161…
The Society of Women Engineers at Cornell and the Cornell chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers recently received national awards. (Nov. 14, 2007)
Kim Haines-Eitzen's recent book 'The Gendered Palimpsest' reveals a layered history of early Christianity through an analysis of women's roles both in early Christian texts and text transmission. (Oct. 16, 2012)
Three Cornell physicists will discuss new evidence about faster-than-light travel in an open forum Nov. 17 in 700 Clark Hall. Refreshments are at 7 p.m.; the forum will begin at 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 8, 2011)
Mark Nelson, Cornell professor of accounting, has been named the 12th dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. He will begin his five-year term as the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean July 1.
Cornell sociologist Victor Nee explains the Chinese government's changing tolerance of capitalist dealings became fuel for the nation's economic miracle.
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D., the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, announced today that Sanford I. Weill and his wife, Joan, and Maurice R. Greenberg and his wife, Corinne, are giving $150 million to the medical college.
Leading activist writers Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez will give a joint poetry reading and hold a book signing on campus April 1. On April 8, the Africana Center will host poet and literary critic Édouard Glissant for a 4:30 p.m. panel discussion at the center. (March 26, 2010)
New York Gov. George E. Pataki has announced that Cornell's proposed genomics technologies research center will be designated as a Strategically Targeted Academic Research center.