Cornell’s Malacology Collection will get new life online when it is donated to the Paleontological Research Institution, which plans to digitize it and make it available to researchers around the world.
Robin Davisson, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell, will become president and CEO of the Melanoma Research Alliance effective Oct. 1.
The Internet-First University Press has released a complete directory of all available material as it works to make new and archival content more easily accessible.
CALS Day took on a festival atmosphere with more than 35 science exhibits, food, animals, tie-dye and music during a celebration of the diversity of the college’s research and people.
Emeritus professor Franklin Kingston Moore, who was awarded a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, died on Nov. 21 in Ithaca. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Moore was 94.
Faculty members Anthony Burrow and Julia Felippe, Ph.D. ’02, have been appointed provost’s fellows for public engagement, to advance Cornell’s public engagement mission and initiatives around community-engaged learning and research.
Due to an outage on fiber-optic lines, calls from outside have not been reaching campus phones since Nov. 15. Verizon estimates coverage will be restored by the morning of Nov. 17.