In a message to the Cornell community, Robert S. Harrison '76, chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, announced the appointment of President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III as interim president.
Authorities say there was no immediate danger as Cornell University Police and the Endicott Bomb Squad safely removed a small, improvised explosive device from a campus building Tuesday, April 14.
More than 100 engineering students let off some end-of-semester steam and tried not to blow any gaskets at the annual Robotics Day competition, held Dec. 10 in Duffield Hall atrium.
Six custodial and housekeeping workers were honored with Bartels Awards for Custodial Service Excellence at an annual ceremony, held Dec. 10 in Bartels Hall.
A new book, “The Economics of Poverty Traps,” co-edited by Cornell agricultural and development economist Chris Barrett, highlights cutting-edge research on the mechanisms that keep people entrenched in poverty.
Cornell economist Kaushik Basu has been named president-elect of the International Economic Association. He will assume the position of president in 2017.
Twenty years after his pivotal paper with Steven Strogatz launched the study of network science, Duncan Watts, Ph.D. '97, will give a talk on changes in the field.
Professors Emeriti Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore explore atheism in American public life in their new book, “Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic.”
More than 3,000 staff, faculty, retirees and their families enjoyed chicken parmesan or a vegetarian meal at the Winter Employee Celebration Feb. 17. Many went bowling, took in a movie at Cornell Cinema or cheered on Big Red at one of several athletics events held the same day.