Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died.
Scholars and collectors interested in African art have long focused their attention on traditional works -- particularly the wooden sculptures and ethnographic artifacts that may be seen in today's Western museums and are described in mainstream art history textbooks.
In the third in a series of interviews with Cornell's campaign co-chairs, Robert Appel '53, trustee emeritus and presidential councillor, talks about the Weill Cornell campaign. (Oct. 13, 2011)
Cornell Plantations and other tree-friendly groups in Tompkins County are gearing up for the third annual Big Tree Search, a contest that aims for year-round tree appreciation. Nov. 15, 1997, is the deadline for the nomination of trees that may be the largest of their species in Tompkins County.
Two Cornell students garnered top honors in the first Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship, a national competition sponsored by Fine Books and Collections magazine.
Daniel McKee and David Rando, who tied for first place in…
Anne Lukingbeal, associate dean and dean of students at Cornell Law School, has been a mentor to women since she first came to campus and now she is being doubly recognized for her efforts.
On Sept. 30 the board of trustees approved the appointment of Elizabeth Garrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, as Cornell’s next president. Garrett, who will be the first woman to lead the university, will assume the presidency July 1, 2015.
ILR Professor Francine D. Blau, ILR '66, has won the prestigious IZA Prize in Labor Economics from the Institute for the Study of Labor, a think tank in Germany. (Sept. 30, 2010)
A Cornell University-led team operating the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), the largest of the three main instruments on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has discovered a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our Milky Way galaxy. Their distance from Earth is about 11 billion light years, or 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
Governor of Puerto Rico Luis G. Fortuno promoted statehood for the commonwealth and detailed economic reforms he has made there, during a speech March 8 in Bailey Hall. (March 9, 2010)