Five Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
Mahinder Kingra has been named editor-in-chief at Cornell University Press following a decade as director of marketing. He will manage acquisitions editors and acquire books in humanities disciplines.
Ben Renberg has been named senior associate vice president, effective Sept. 15, and Tracy Cary has been named associate vice president for operations, effective Aug. 22 at Cornell.
Elaine Runting Shi, associate professor of computer science, has won a 2015 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, which includes $875,000 over five years for research.
Cornell administrators detailed plans for surveillance testing, which is required for members of the Cornell community who work or study on the Ithaca campus and at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva.
“Criminalizing Immigrants: Border Controls, Enforcement and Resistance,” Nov. 9-10, brought researchers and academics from a range of disciplines together.
Vice President Joe Biden, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January, will give the keynote address at this year's Senior Convocation, during Cornell's 149th Commencement Weekend.
Herb Doig started work on his master's degree in the 1950s and is now on the cusp of completing that journey at the age of 83, alongside his granddaughter Kiley McPeek.