The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which aims to boost the number of faculty members from groups underrepresented in higher education, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
His three-year term, to begin July 1, results from a canvassing of the Africana faculty. Earlier this semester, the faculty voted unanimously to make Aching a full professor in their department, also starting July 1.
President Elizabeth Garrett sat down with Cornell Chronicle editors last month to share her thoughts on her inauguration and priorities for the coming year. Garrett will be installed as the university's 13th president Friday, Sept. 18.
"Pan-African Connections," a symposium in honor of Africana professor Locksley Edmondson, to be held April 13-14 at the Africana Studies and Research Center, is free and the public is welcome.
At the annual BOOM (Bits on Our Minds) showcase April 24 in Duffield Hall, more than 200 students used technology to try to solve problems large and small, local and international, for entertainment, convenience, increased equity or social good.
Marilyn Migiel and Caroline Levine, faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences, will be honored by the Modern Language Association at the group’s annual convention Jan. 7.
Growers who time their strawberries to bloom just after apples do, can reap a better harvest, according to new research from the lab of Bryan Danforth, professor of entomology.
The Red Runner system has begun piloting a service similar to CU Lift to provide free transportation on campus for staff and faculty who have disabilities or chronic health conditions.
A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove an old theory that explains how the arms race between attacking insects and defended plants led to great diversity of both. (Sept. 8, 2009)