Cornell has accepted 6,062 applicants for admission to the Class of 2017 this fall, out of 40,006 applications received, the highest number of applications to date and 5.8 percent more than in 2012.
Internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman will be on campus to celebrate his 50th reunion at Cornell University this weekend. The winner of numerous architectural awards, Eisenman '54 earned his B.Arch. degree at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (June 10, 2004)
Mayor Svante Myrick delivered a keynote address at the the annual Student United Way Leadership Retreat in Alexandria, Va., and Cornell Student United Way co-chairs Christine Roberti and Samuel Coleman attended a briefing with White House officials.
Janet Reno ’60, who went from leading Cornell's Women's Student Government Association to becoming the United States' first female attorney general, died from complications of Parkinson's disease Nov. 7. She was 78.
Cornell University Library, in a call for transparency from journal publishers, will no longer sign nondisclosure agreements about prices, which prohibit informed negotiation. (March 23, 2011)
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. (BTI) this month celebrates 25 years of affiliation with Cornell. To mark the occasion, BTI will hold an openhouse reception May 19.
Dan Luo, whose work in nucleic acid engineering is changing the way scientists look at DNA, has garnered a prestigious 2006 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation.
New York state's most vulnerable children, those who are hard to place with adoptive parents because of their age or special needs, receive very different levels of support depending on where they live, according to a new Cornell study.
Chosen from an international pool of candidates, epidemiologist Ynte Schukken was nominated for the award by faculty at the University of Ghent's College of Veterinary Medicine. (Feb. 24, 2010)
Steven W. Squyres has been named chairman of the NASA Advisory Council, an assembly of experts that offers guidance and policy advice to the administrator of America's space agency. (Nov. 7, 2011)