In a Cornell Perspectives article, ILR School senior extension associate Peter Lazes says the U.S. can save jobs and produce energy-efficient transportation by retooling auto plants. (March 16, 2009)
Would Cornell allow a lion in any of its libraries? Perhaps, if it were like the kind-hearted lion brought to life by Michelle Knudsen '95 in her children's picture book, 'Library Lion.'
John V. Murra, whose pioneering research on the Incas transformed historical understanding of pre and post-Columbian Andean social systems, was a member of the Cornell faculty from 1968 to 1982.
NEW YORK -- Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, the Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC), was awarded the Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award at a ceremony May 4…
Peter C. Meinig '61, outgoing chair of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, recently sat down with the Cornell Chronicle to look back on a decade of service.
Cornell Hillel's Board of Trustees has announced that Barbara Friedman '59 will be the first recipient of the Tanner Prize for her significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell University. The prize will be given to Friedman at an honorary luncheon April 21 at the Cornell Club in New York City.
Chuck Feeney '56 and Solomon Kerzner were honored at a Cornell event at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City June 8. (June 10, 2010)
On March 10, Floyd Cardoz, executive chef of New York City's Tabla restaurant, will launch the spring 2002 Guest Chefs Series with a sumptuous four-course dinner at the Statler Hotel on Cornell University's campus. The event, featuring Cardoz's unique Indian-inspired international cuisine, is open to the public. Tabla earned a three-star review in The New York Times in 1999, soon after it opened, and Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl wrote: "For me it was love at first bite." (March 6, 2002)
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Artificial tissues with an embedded vascular system and a skull base sealer were two Cornell student inventions honored as finalists in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. (Oct. 21, 2009)