A campus organization at Cornell University that promotes and celebrates the multi-racial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities, and Nationalities Discussion) and its founder and president, Cornell senior Tamika Lewis, will be presented with the eighth-annual Perkins Prize, including an award of $5,000, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings during a ceremony Tuesday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus. (April 3, 2002)
For the fourth year in a row, Cornell's applied and engineering physics program has been ranked No. 1 among its peers, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 college rankings. (Aug. 22, 2008)
Beta Mannix, director of the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) at Cornell University, hopes the institute will bring social scientists together on campus and attract more top-flight people to the university
Cornell's ongoing efforts to create an inclusive environment for all students, staff and faculty were recognized by Campus Pride, which named the university to its LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. (Oct. 23, 2007)
Ben Justus '08 is founder of the EGBOK (Everything's Gonna Be OK) Mission, a philanthropic organization to support education for children and young adults in the developing world. (Sept. 21, 2009)
Jason Koski/University PhotographyLeaders of the ACCEL program within the Provost's Office will be, from left, Provost Biddy Martin; Shelley Correll, associate professor of sociology; Marjolein van der Meulen, associate professor…
The Rev. Robert Smith, the Robert R. Colbert Sr. '48 Catholic Chaplain at Cornell, offers a perspectives piece on the the upcoming Colbert Symposia series. (Sept. 11, 2009)
A Cornell study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that played a role in turning genes on and off.
Susan Merkel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, is leading an effort to introduce new microbiology curricula nationwide. (July 13, 2011)