President David Skorton talked about faculty hiring, today's college experience and his Los Angeles-area roots at a March 14 event for Cornellians at Fox Studios in L.A.
Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is the third architectural firm chosen to take on the Milstein Hall project for Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP).
"The project has had a checkered past," AAP…
Actor Tom Demenkoff will present a DrillingCompaNY actors workshop open to the campus community Nov. 19 in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (November 9, 2005)
The newly refurbished and renovated Bailey Hall is ready for prime time, the building itself having been inaugurated with classes, symposiums and a concert since reopening in August.
David Lipsky, an early proponent of distance learning and director of the Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell, has been named director of educational planning and review for eCornell. The announcement was made on March 21 by Francis Pandolfi, president and chief executive officer of the university's distance-learning subsidiary.
Two years after the New York State Board of Regents removed the option of a local diploma in favor of more-demanding Regents diplomas for all students, 28 percent of the state's school superintendents, not including New York City, are reporting an increase in dropouts, according to a Cornell University survey. The findings were presented as a preliminary draft to the state's education leaders in May, and its final version is being released today (June 19, 2002). Among low-performing school districts, about 45 percent of the superintendents reported an increase in dropouts. Most average- and high-performing school districts reported no change in the dropout rate, according to the survey of superintendents and principals throughout New York state, conducted by John W. Sipple, Cornell assistant professor of education, and Kieran Killeen, an assistant professor at the University of Vermont. The survey included administrators from across upstate New York state. (June 19, 2002)
Contemporary composer Steve Reich -- pronounced WRY-sh -- is having a good year.
In addition to tributes at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Cornell alumnus, Class of '57, who turned 70 on Oct…
Molecular biologists at Cornell University have established a Recombinant Protein Expression Laboratory with a five-year, $986,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute. Located in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the centralized facility will produce proteins for cancer-related research throughout Cornell's Ithaca campus as well as at the Weill Medical College of Cornell and its Tri-Institutional Collaboration partners (Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) in New York City. (June 7, 2002)