Academic women of color today aren't hindered so much by a glass ceiling, but one made of concrete, said Akanke Omorayo, the program coordinator of the University of Michigan's Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP). She…
Robert Constable will step down as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science when his second five-year term ends, June 30, 2009. (June 11, 2008)
President David Skorton's first grand rounds lecture at Weill Cornell Medical College Jan. 18 broadly discussed the public service and outreach roles of academic health centers both within Cornell and the community at large. (Jan. 19, 2007)
Mary Jo Dudley has been named director of the Cornell Migrant Program and a senior extension associate in the Department of Development Sociology in CALS.
The CU-ADVANCE Center and Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble held a Sept. 21 seminar to raise awareness for department chairs and search committee representatives about unconscious gender bias and equity in faculty searches. (Sept. 25, 2007)
A peaceful political resolution to the civil war in Nepal should boost enrollment in the Cornell-Nepal Study Program, Cornell Abroad's only campus-administered program. (May 13, 2008)
More than 50 years ago, a Cornell mission to a small village in Peru made profound changes, some good, some bad. Today, Cornell may help the community again. (July 23, 2009)
About 270 undergraduates, 60 master's degree candidates, 40 Ph.D. candidates and a lone Johnson School MBA candidate participated in the fourth annual midyear graduation ceremony, Dec. 16.
A Cornell mini-conference on climate change was designed to build bridges across disciplines and departments, so faculty and staff could learn what others are doing and collaborate.
Cornell greenhouses contain plants for teaching, research and public viewing. With 163 complexes, Cornell now has the largest noncommercial greenhouse operation in New York state. (Aug. 30, 2007)