The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has committed $3 million for the new Marriott Student Learning Center in the School of Hotel Administration. (Sept. 26, 2011)
Kicking off a weekend to celebrate esteemed Cornell professor Harold Scheraga's 90th birthday, friends and alumni dedicated a room, named in his honor, in the Physical Sciences Building. (Sept. 26, 2011)
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, this year's Olin lecturer, stressed how the use of honor - and shame - could be a trigger for social and societal change. (Sept. 26, 2011)
Assistant professor Ziad Fahmy discussed his book, 'Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture,' and how pop songs helped fuel Egypt's 1919 revolution. (Sept. 26, 2011)
For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic mechanism in lowland leopard frogs that makes some frogs resistant to a fatal disease that has decimated frog populations. (Sept. 26, 2011)
Alumni Peter and Stephanie Nolan have endowed the David J. Nolan Directorship of the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell. Professor Loren Tauer will hold the position.
The sixth Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation's Fiber Arts and Wearable Arts Exhibition features student fiber arts projects in the new Human Ecology Building until Nov. 1. (Sept. 26, 2011)
The Institute for the Social Sciences' three-year theme project, Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership, is hosting faculty from across campus to explore immigration from many perspectives. (Sept. 26, 2011)
'I'm a Frayed Knot,' a postmodern take on "The Scarlet Letter" written and directed by senior lecturer Byron Suber, will be performed Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (Sept. 23, 2011)
At an Inside Cornell media event Sept. 20 in New York City, Professor David Wolfe reviewed how quickly the globe is warming and how New York can better prepare. (Sept. 23, 2011)