Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has been given the new title of vice provost for land grant affairs to recognize her work with the contract colleges.
A new, public open space is greatly needed to replace what was correctly described as an "eyesore" in the recent Cornell Chronicle article ("Bailey Hall pedestrian plaza plan draws praise and concern," Feb. 16). Driven by…
Cornell President David Skorton has endorsed the Faculty Senate’s December 2013 resolution to aggressively bring carbon neutrality to campus by 2035, but he will not recommend the university divest its $5.7 billion endowment of the top 200 fossil fuel-holding companies.
Funding from the Gates Foundation will allow the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.
With great expectations, the $162 million, 263,000-square-foot building designed by architect Richard Meier will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move in this month. (June 6, 2008)
Following a rumor that a 16th-century document, part of the Witchcraft Collection in Cornell University Library, was written in blood, a father and daughter investigated.
For her leadership in social finance, Siobhan King '04, MBA '13, has been awarded a fellowship that will give her hands-on experience in that field. (Dec. 7, 2012)
In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, Cornell University is offering a new course for the 2002 spring semester that will take a wide-ranging look at the issues of terrorism, religious warfare, global conflict and civil liberties. "This new course presents an opportunity to review and discuss issues concerning global development and its relationship to conflict and terrorism," says James E. Haldeman, senior associate director of International Programs in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and one of the class's organizers. (January 14, 2002)