Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, is stepping down in July 2008 after eight years in that position to return to his faculty position at the Africana Center. (Dec. 5, 2007)
The end of the Iraq war gives universities the opportunity to hire veterans with leadership abilities and relevant skills in areas such as operations, business, engineering, finance and hospitality. (Jan. 10, 2012)
Cornell University Library's Chats in the Stacks series of faculty talks about recently published work celebrates its 10th anniversary. (Sept. 30, 2011)
To address a funding imbalance, the Cornell Women’s Grant Fellows Workshop aims to familiarize female assistant professors with the landscape of federal funders, program officers and grant applications, and to teach tips for writing a winning proposal.
Robert L. Harris, professor of African-American history at Cornell since 1975, will be the next director of the Africana Studies and Research Center starting July 1.
A proposal for research to detect racial bias in the research peer review process has earned a second-place prize from the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review for two College of Human Ecology faculty members.
A new study of mice and their urine reveals how mixing and matching combinations and relative amounts of scent chemicals leads to each individual’s unique perfume.