Charles R. Fay, deputy director of the Cornell Center for the Environment, has been named the university's vice provost for research administration. Fay succeeds Jack W. Lowe, who is retiring as executive vice provost for research.
The future of information technology -- from wireless communications to new imaging systems -- is the topic of the 1996 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 12 and 13 at Cornell.
A new publication from the Cornell University Retirement and Well-Being Study provides an in-depth look at how the older Americans fare through the transition to – and in – retirement.
Richard Meier, architect of the Getty Center heads a list of distinguished artists, educators and critics who will offer insight into America's cultural climate and artistic professions during a symposium Oct. 4 and 5 at Cornell.
Jason Kats '10 gave his friend, Sam Scott '10, an unusual wedding gift: He endowed the first fund ever in the American Indian Program in honor of Scott and his bride. (Dec. 6, 2012)
Cornell University's undergraduate business program in the Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) was accredited Jan. 9 by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The course becomes only the second general undergraduate business program in the Ivy League, after the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to earn accreditation. AEM is a department within Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Accreditation provides recognition of the content and quality of its business program. The designation means that a peer group of scholars has examined the undergraduate business program in AEM and has approved it. (January 18, 2002)
Who is the rightful parent of a test-tube baby? How should a physician honor a patient's right to die? Does the use of stem cells from human embryos in life-saving research violate a congressional ban? Should there be such a ban?
Cornell's Christine Leuenberger found herself in the midst of the most recent chapter of the Israel-Palestine wars and talked to people on both sides about their experiences.