ILR School will present its highest honors for outstanding professional achievement and contributions to the school to Mark Brossman, Robert Molofsky and Ruben King-Shaw. (March 13, 2008)
Katherine Kies is the 2011 winner of the School of Hotel Administration's Drown Foundation Prize, awarded annually by the Joseph Drown Foundation to a graduating senior. (May 25, 2011)
Internationally famed architect Rem Koolhaas spoke to an overflow crowd in Kennedy Hall's 600-seat David L. Call Alumni Auditorium on campus April 25. The 2000 winner of the Pritzker Prize -- often called the Nobel Prize of architecture -- talked about his views of the current state of architecture in general and also described, and showed images of, projects of his own. (April 26, 2005)
Vivian Schiller '83 is new NPR head; Wendy Libby '72, MBA '77, is named president of Stetson University; and Josh Greenfield '84 publishes a novel. (Dec. 4, 2008)
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell has established the Jack Sheinkman Chair of Collective Bargaining in honor of the former president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
A Cornell medical school study finds that when doctors use electronic systems to write prescriptions, they make seven times fewer errors than when they scrawl by hand. (March 30, 2010)
For many urban Americans -- especially nonwhites and New Yorkers -- home sweet home is structurally inadequate and overcrowded, according to a new Cornell study. Although American housing quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, nonwhites were three times more likely to live in structurally inadequate housing than whites in seven representative metropolitan areas studied.