Jessica Govea Thorbourne, a labor educator with Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in New York City and a founding organizer of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers (UFW) Union, died Jan. 23, 2005.
Provost Kent Fuchs and Harry Greene, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Chuck Feeney '56 have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2003 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 23 through 25.
A Weill Cornell Medicine investigators suggests a lung function test frequently to evaluate whether a smoker is at risk for developing pulmonary disease is likely mislabeling smokers as healthy.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found a new therapeutic approach to an aggressive form of lymphoma that may greatly increase the efficacy of treatment and result in better patient outcomes.
Kenneth A. McClane ’73, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor Emeritus of Literature, spoke about friendship in a Phi Beta Kappa lecture on campus Oct. 28. He drew on experiences growing up in Harlem.
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have found that the order in which obese patients with type 2 diabetes eat food matters and may help control glucose levels.
Alumnus Jay W. Waks will receive the ILR School's Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, and Paul Cole, secretary-treasurer emeritus of the New York State AFL-CIO, will receive the Jerome Alpern Award March 29. (March 27, 2007)
Cornellians are invited to gather June 8 at the American Museum of Natural History for the second annual Cornell Icon of the Industry Awards Dinner June 8 to honor Chuck Feeney '56 and Solomon Kerzner. (May 27, 2010)