Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Despite great strides in modernizing physics labs, often by removing rigid structures to give students more independence, gender roles are still present in these spaces through imbalances in lab work.
Cornell's undergraduate architecture program has been ranked No. 1 for the fourth straight year in a nationwide survey. A graduate architecture program was ranked sixth for the second year in a row. (Dec. 5, 2011)
Cornell has been included in a top 25 list of universities with the most students studying abroad; Cornell leaders are looking at even higher goals to improve the rate of students studying internationally.
In its 2012 rankings, U.S. News and World Report ranks Cornell second in engineering science/engineering physics programs and fourth among biological/agricultural engineering programs. (Sept. 13, 2011)
Political scientist Steven Levitsky, the Sundance Institute’s Keri Putnam and biomedical engineer Stephen Quake have joined the ranks of leading scholars and public intellectuals at Cornell as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.
W.E. Cornell, a campus program that aims to even the playing field by providing women with networking, mentoring and training opportunities, has accepted 40 new participants – nearly double the size of last year’s cohort.
A new Cornell study reports that entrepreneurship program rankings are seriously flawed because they ignore the widespread trend toward universitywide entrepreneurship programs. (Sept. 21, 2011)
Quacquarelli Symonds has published its first World University Rankings by individual discipline, with Cornell making the top 25 in every category. (May 19, 2011)