Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students taught 380 middle- and high-school students in hands-on workshops at the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference June 28-30 on campus.
Anne R. Kenney, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, has announced she will step down from her position April 1, 2017, to begin a six-month research leave, after which she will retire.
Several faculty members and a graduate student in Cornell's College of Engineering are recipients of recent awards and honors. They include Fred Kulhawy, David Putnam, Leslie Banks-Sills and Filip Radlinski.
Kulhawy, professor…
Cornell will build the central engine for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), an online resource that will make high-quality source materials in science available to students from kindergarten through college.
David Liben-Nowell, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a 1999 Winston Churchill Foundation scholarship providing for one year of graduate study at Churchill College of Cambridge University in England.
eHub opened earlier this month in Kennedy Hall and houses the offices of Entrepreneurship at Cornell and Blackstone LaunchPad for use by students, faculty and staff interested in entrepreneurship.
A record number of students - 980 - will graduate in January, and the winter graduate recognition event celebrated their accomplishments Dec. 21 in Barton Hall.
The digital age is about much more than technology; it is fundamentally changing the ways in which people learn, work, play and interact with one another, according to the provost's Task Force on Wisdom in the Age of Digital…