Cornell President David J. Skorton will give his first Commencement address, and the Convocation speaker will be CNN television journalist Soledad O'Brien. (May 21, 2007)
The Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. (May 21, 2007)
Daniel Sisler, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, has been named the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Spirit of Helen Keller Award. (May 21, 2007)
Cornell was one of five organizations awarded an Equal Employment Opportunity Award for demonstrated exemplary efforts in achieving equal employment opportunity in the workplace. (May 21, 2007)
Cornell Publications and Marketing, University Photography and the Cornell Chronicle in garnered five medals in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education 2007 competition. (May 21, 2007)
Adam and Emilie Liebhoff will both graduate with their MBAs this May, three months after Emilie gave birth to their daughter, Lilly. During school Emilie also launched a business, a mother/daughter sports camp. (May 21, 2007)
Associate professor of music Steven Pond's book, 'Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album,' received a Guthrie Book Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. (May 21, 2007)
Paul A. Marks, professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and alumnus Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak were elected to the APS, the oldest learned society in the United States. (May 21, 2007)
Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program will honor this week 36 seniors and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives. (May 21, 2007)
New research by Cornell and Dartmouth researchers explains the biological mechanism behind how circadian clocks sense light through a process that transfers energy from light to chemical reactions in cells. (May 18, 2007)