Martha E. Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, was elected Cornell's 14th president. She will assume the presidency April 17, 2017.
Murray’s Stockinghall cheese – a bright, lemony, cloth-bound cheddar named for Cornell’s Stocking Hall – won best in show at the 36th American Cheese Society competition.
This past weekend, Cornell community members loaded a bus with blankets, towels, coats, jackets, toiletries, bottled water, snacks and winter gear for those who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy. (Nov. 14, 2012)
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies awarded grants to faculty to support new collaborative research on international topics and fund workshops or other activities.
Dr. Vijay Sankaran, who investigates molecular underpinnings of pediatric genetic blood disorders, has been awarded the third annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research.
Cornell and the Technion have received numerous expressions of support from entrepreneurs and academics in their partnership bid for the New York City Tech Campus. The proposal is due Oct. 28.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will provide ongoing guidance on the programmatic and physical development of Cornell's new NYC tech campus.
Cornell President Martha E. Pollack announced that all classes on the Ithaca campus will be suspended for three weeks effective March 13 at 5 p.m. Virtual instruction will begin April 6. Students are strongly encouraged to return to their permanent home residences as soon as feasible.
Meghan French, an assistant vice president at Pace University, has been named director of external relations for the new CornellNYC Tech campus in New York City. (Aug. 8, 2012)
A Cornell research team led by Ben Cosgrove used a new cellular profiling technology to probe and catalog in a “muscle regeneration atlas,” the activity of almost every possible kind of stem cell involved in muscle repair.