David J. Gibson has been named editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine. Gibson's appointment was made by the Cornell Magazine Committee of the Cornell Alumni Federation, which owns the publication.
Scholars will address risk - in areas ranging from epidemiology to literature to the housing crisis - at a Society for the Humanities conference, Oct. 26-27. (Oct. 25, 2012)
A conversation with architect and alumnus Richard Meier about the design of Weill Hall in relation to the campus and designing a building to meet the needs of its users. (Oct. 10, 2008)
Sustainability advocate Mathis Wackernagel, a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, stressed Oct. 18 that many countries fail to take resource scarcity into account when making economic decisions. (Oct. 19, 2011)
Four members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are among 348 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year. The four are Donald Campbell, professor of astronomy; David Grusky, professor of sociology; David Hammer, the J. Carleton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering, and Ray Wu, professor of molecular biology and genetics. (October 31, 2003)
Michelle Obama's influential and controversial image and identity were discussed Oct. 15 at a panel at the Africana Studies and Research Center. (Oct. 23, 2012)
CITIZEN U, a 4-H program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, is helping at-risk youth prepare for college careers.
In celebration of the centennial of the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell, the exhibition "From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?" shows the intellectual history of home economics.