A gala two-day event to celebrate the career and leadership of Dale R. Corson, Cornell's eighth president, will be held on campus Dec. 6 and 7. Corson was president of Cornell from 1969 to 1977.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees voted unanimously Sept. 16 to approve the appointment of School of Hotel Administration Dean Michael Johnson to a second term.
Until Cornell undergraduate students on a mycology field trip found mysterious fungal "fruiting bodies" rising from an eviscerated beetle grub, little was known of the mold that produces a life-saving pharmaceutical for organ transplantation -- the immunosuppressant, cyclosporin.
Up to $5 million in annual energy conservation savings will be realized by 2017, and nearly $10 million annually for savings in Facilities Services by 2012, said staff from Facilities Services. (Sept. 30, 2011)
The Cornell campus is facing a winter of challenge as energy costs soar. Over the next few weeks, Chronicle Online will be presenting stories showing the extent of rising costs and how the Cornell community can help to keep them under control. (November 16, 2005)
The Division of Student and Academic Services plans to pare university contributions by nearly $2 million by 2015, Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy said Sept. 21. (Sept. 27, 2011)
Weill Cornell Medical College has received $13 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to continue studying atherosclerosis and thrombosis, which are major risk factors for coronary artery disease, heart attack and stroke.
Jean McKelvey, the first faculty member of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the first woman to serve as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, died Jan. 5 in Rochester, N.Y. She was 89.