The four seed grants and four small grants were awarded to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general.
Celebrating the fourth anniversary of the launch of the $800 million Spitzer Space Telescope, Professor Jim Houck, leader of Cornell's Spitzer team, says the telescope's greatest accomplishments are yet to come. (Aug. 20, 2007)
Samuel C. Johnson, chairman emeritus of the Johnson Family of Companies, died May 22 at his home in Racine, Wisc., after a long battle with cancer. He was 76. He was the fourth generation of Johnson family members to head the 118-year-old family-owned group of businesses often referred to as Johnson Wax. Johnson, who earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1950, was a presidential councillor at Cornell -- the highest honor accorded to an alumnus -- a former trustee and leading benefactor. (May 25, 2004)
The 2010 Perkins Prize for interracial harmony and understanding went to the Cornell Farmworker Program. Cornell IthaQatar Student Ambassadors and Cornell Urban Mentor Initiative received honorable mentions. (April 29, 2010)
Vivian Geller, director of Cornell's Internal Transfer Division for nearly 30 years, reflects on her career and on working closely with Cornell students. (June 12, 2008)
Mosaic@Atlanta, a conference of Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic and Native American Cornell alumni, faculty, students and staff, was held Sept. 28 in Atlanta. (Oct. 10, 2007)
Two dozen scholars and academic administrators launched a new initiative in the humanities on campus with a round-table conversation, "The Humanities at Cornell and Beyond," in Sibley Hall May 9. Led by Provost Biddy Martin, the collective self-examination marked the latest effort at Cornell to address what some academics have framed as a "crisis in the humanities."
As the number of species declines due to habitat loss, pollution and climate change, the risk of catching infectious diseases may rise for humans, animals and plants. (Dec. 2, 2010)
Filip Radlinski, a Fulbright scholar from Australia, has won a two-year Microsoft Research Fellowship, awarded to outstanding Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering or math. He will use the fellowship to…
Forget fashion forecasts - the Class of 2009 knows its color of choice for the next four years. As they donned their white coats Aug. 24, they officially assumed the mantle of the medical student.