During his inauguration speech, Cornell President David J. Skorton announced the establishment of the Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China, in honor of Cornell's 11th president. A faculty and graduate…
Jason Koski/University PhotographyAntonio Gotto Jr., dean of the Weill Cornell Medical College, delivers an appreciation of David Skorton at inauguration ceremonies, Sept. 7 on the Arts Quad. New York City Cornellians watched the…
At 11 a.m. on Sept. 7, Cornell President David Skorton's inauguration day, the grass on the Arts Quad was still wet from the morning fog. A sea of 3,399 empty, white chairs fanned out from the round stage on the west side of the…
The following is a greeting sent by the faculty, students and staff at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar to President David Skorton on the occasion of his inauguration.
Greetings -- or assalamu alaykum -- from Weill Cornell…
Yasuko Nakanishi Whitman, senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell, died Aug. 4 at her home in Ithaca. She was 53.
Nakanishi was born in 1952 in Shigaraki, Shiga prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Tamagawa…
Karl Browne
Patrick Dougherty's 42-foot-tall "Roundabout" at the Tallaght Community Art Center, Dublin, Ireland, 1997.
One doesn't expect to happen upon a contemporary art installation made entirely of tree saplings in…
A woman from Liberia and a former child soldier from Uganda have won the right to asylum in the United States, with the help of Cornell Law School students who provided them with legal assistance.
"One year, I took a map of the [state] fairgrounds and colored in all the 4-H exhibits," said Celeste Carmichael, the 4-H youth development program specialist who has helped coordinate Cornell-related 4-H events at the Great New…
For many Cornell students, such as the 37 undergraduate and graduate students participating in the fifth Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP) summer internship program in New York City, education is enhanced with work far beyond…
Bridging the Gap
This summer saw several regional firsts for Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q). The medical college, in Education City, Doha, initiated a new training program in Qatar for medical interpreters as an…