Cornell has named Michael Abbott chief investment officer to oversee its $4.4 billion endowment. Abbott starts his new post at the Office of University Investments Nov. 1. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Graduate student Ziqi (Zig) Wu has won the inaugural International Student of the Year Award from the International Facility Management Association Foundation. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Anthropologist Webb Keane will present 'Life with Others and the Modalities of Ethics,' Nov. 9 at 4:30 p.m. at Goldwin Smith's Hollis Cornell Auditorium as part of the humanities lecture series. (Nov. 1, 2010)
The map promises to provide a much more comprehensive understanding of the role of inherited DNA variation in human history, evolution and disease and the best methods to use to sequence DNA. (Nov. 1, 2010)
A visiting Humanities Lecture series speaker used the history of the Soviet Union as a case in point that Islam is much better understood in the context of history. (Nov. 1, 2010)
David I. Owen, professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic studies, was honored Oct. 29 at a symposium in his honor titled 'Power and Knowledge in Ancient Iraq' at the A.D. White House. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Cornell must hire more faculty, especially in the humanities, and bolster those disciplines in the national arena, President David Skorton said in his 2010 State of the University Address. (Oct. 29, 2010)
Scot Safon, MBA '84, CNN Worldwide's chief marketing officer, talked about how the the digital revolution has transformed the field of marketing, in his Oct. 21 talk on campus. (Oct. 29, 2010)
The Cornell Plantations' Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center was dedicated Oct. 28, culminating a decade of building and renovation projects at the Plantations. (Oct. 29, 2010)
A panel of three Cornell academics discussed the controversy in India about the film, Peepli Live, and the representations of an epidemic of farmer suicides there, Oct. 26. (Oct. 29, 2010)