Harold D. Craft Jr., Cornell University's vice president for administration and chief financial officer, announced today, Nov. 14, that he will recommend to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees the appointment of Joanne M. DeStefano as vice president for financial affairs and university controller, effective Dec. 6.
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor six alumni and two faculty members at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 2. The event will be held at Cornell's Statler Hotel.
The Cornell community continues to be a welcoming place for women and minorities, Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, told the Cornell Board of Trustees on May 27. Other universities may be getting more press for increasing attention on diversity, Harris said, but Cornell's hiring and enrollment statistics show a consistent, positive trend toward attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and student body.
To some, the word anthropologist brings to mind images of dusty books, of lonely archives filled with chipped bones and pottery shards.
Meredith Small is not such an anthropologist.
Yes, she has read the dusty books. But the…
An overwhelming majority of Cornell University's teaching assistants, research assistants, graduate research assistants and graduate assistants have voted to reject representation by the United Auto Workers union.
A seemingly simple, sturdy, wood-veneer chair has become an online video hit. With its 'brain' in its seat, the chair collapses into a disheveled, disconnected heap; its legs then slowly find each corner of the base, connect back together and eventually, the chair stands upright.
Much too common for some people's tastes and largely neglected by ornithologists, the plain old American crow gets special attention from one Cornell University researcher.
Salah Hassan has been appointed to a five-year term as director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center effective July 1, the Office of the Provost announced May 12. Hassan, chair of the Department of History of Art and associate professor of African and African Diaspora art history and visual culture, has served as the center's acting director for two years, overseeing the renovation and expansion of the facility that was celebrated with a formal dedication ceremony April 29.
The Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble proves to be an 'extraordinary teaching resource' by helping Professor Carl Hopkins run a class discussion on responsible conduct in the biological sciences as part of a freshman biology course.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 18, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council meeting.