Sorin Lerner, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has been named dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Barry Strauss ’74, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a winner of the 2025 Bradley Prize. The award, given by the Bradley Foundation, carries a stipend of $300,000; Strauss will receive the award at a ceremony on May 29 in Washington, D.C.
High schoolers from Ithaca and Brooklyn produced the artworks depicting Morrison and a local student, a collaboration that promises to introduce Morrison's work to new generations of New Yorkers.
Learn how feathers and DNA are being used to build the next frontier of bird conservation at the 2024 Paul C. Mundinger Distinguished Lectureship given by Dr. Kristen Reugg of Colorado State University and presented by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Savely Senderovich, professor of Russian literature and medieval studies emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences for more than 30 years, died on April 1 in Clarkstown, New York. He was 89.
The Great Backyard Bird Count, organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with Audubon and Birds Canada, is Feb. 14-17 and invites volunteers to watch birds and record what they see, enriching the Cornell Lab’s trove of data.
Princeton history professor Michael Gordin will give the inaugural lecture celebrating the life and work of Henry Guerlac ’32, M.S. ’33, an influential historian of science and Cornell faculty member for three decades.
Proactive outreach and Cornell’s tradition of supporting military service have helped grow the number of cadets and midshipmen joining the Tri-Service Brigade this year.
The software company is contributing $2 million each to Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning and Cornell Engineering to name and update “design and make” spaces.
Cornell is honoring nearly 200 employees this year as “Cornell Heroes” – a universitywide honor that celebrates the extraordinary dedication of staff whose work may go unseen but remains essential to upholding Cornell’s mission.