Michael A. "Mike" Tanner, the quarterback who helped lead the Cornell Big Red football team to a winning record in 1979 and who led his high school football team to a New Jersey state parochial school championship, is among the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
At “Illuminating Images: A First Step to Scientific Discovery,” a panel of Cornell faculty and alumni illustrated how images help further scientific study as part of Charter Day Weekend April 25 at Barton Hall.
The third cohort of Posse Foundation students came to Cornell this fall. The full-scholarship and youth leadership program brings promising Chicago students to 10 top-tier universities.
A Sept. 7 conference on campus titled “Speaking to Power in Latin and Greek Literature” brought scholars from around the world to honor Cornell classicist Fred Ahl.
Sharon H. Kim and Christopher Yenkey, both Ph.D. '11, received the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Awards for their papers based on their dissertation research. (Aug. 31, 2011)
Dual-earner couples might seem to have new-millennium marriages. But for the great majority, strategies to manage work and family demands turn out to be, in fact, a variant of the traditional breadwinner/homemaker gender division. Except, the new version includes two careers but only one on the front burner.
ITHACA, N.Y. --Cornell University's annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On-site registration will begin at 9 a.m. in the foyer of the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. The morning session will begin with a welcome by Andrew Novakovic, chairman of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) department; Steven Kyle, associate professor of AEM, will provide the national perspective on the economy and agriculture; Charles Nicholson, senior research associate in AEM, will discuss New York dairy plants; Brian Henehan, senior extension associate in AEM, will address agricultural strategic marketing; and Bruce Anderson, associate professor of AEM, will focus on agribusiness trends and developments. (November 12, 2002)
Stephen H. Weiss '57, a presidential councilor and a board-elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees for 24 years, including eight as chair, died on Wednesday, April 16, at age 72. (April 17, 2008)
Strengthening its outreach commitment to the local and statewide economies, Cornell has consolidated the economic-development functions of four of its technology-access units into a new Cornell Office of Economic Development.