Joseph Veverka, professor emeritus of astronomy, who studied the many crannies, crevices, clefts and comets within our solar system, has become the second faculty member to win one of astronomy’s most distinguished awards – the Kuiper Prize.
Ten teachers are on campus for two weeks for the Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Program Master Teacher Program to learn how to teach about bioenergy.
Papers are being accepted for the CISSE 2007 conference; Pi Kappa Phi is hosting a charity haunted house; and submissions are being accepted for the first Margaret Bourke-White Photography Portfolio Prize. (Oct. 18, 2007)
To train educators and youth coaches about aquatic life, more than two dozen New York City educators are goin' fishin' on Thursday, Sept. 23, in Central Park.
The professor of population genetics has been named the first Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. The award supports 'outstanding, innovative faculty life sciences research at Cornell.'
Jim Irish and his wife, Andrea Glanz, both Class of 1974, returned to campus April 24. They made a gift to the Africana library's Caribbean studies collection.
Thomas C. Reed ’56, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, spoke at Cornell Air Force ROTC Detachment 520's annual Dining Out event in Ithaca Nov. 14.
VP and chief financial officer Joanne DeStefano has announced that Aimee Turner of the J. Craig Venter Institute has accepted the position of associate vice president and university controller. (Sept. 24, 2012)
A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity. (Dec. 1, 2009)
Seth Harris '83, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, will collaborate with faculty, teach courses in labor law and policy, and advise students on internship and job opportunities in Washington, D.C.