Nominations for the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate opened this week: Peer nominations are due Wednesday, Nov. 15, and all self-nominations are due Friday, Nov. 17.
With 60 Cornell graduates joining Teach For America in 2010, Cornell ranks third among large colleges and universities contributing the greatest number of graduating seniors. (July 21, 2010)
Emeritus professor Franklin Kingston Moore, who was awarded a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, died on Nov. 21 in Ithaca. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Moore was 94.
Cornell will establish a new Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, thanks to $1 million in state funding.
Cornell’s eateries were recently recognized for their abundance, variety and impressive buffets by Parents & Colleges. The university ranked fourth as one of the “Top 10 Best College Eats” for 2010.
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Chris Barrett has been named the new David J. Nolan Director of the nationally ranked Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management effective Jan. 1, 2014.
From higher education’s affordability problem, to the meaningfulness of student service trips abroad, to a balanced view of Washington politics, Bill Gates, visiting campus for the first time in a decade, touched on a little of everything during a public Q&A.
eCornell is now offering professionals the opportunity to earn an executive certificate in Data Analytics that builds core fluency in data analysis and a foundation for further technical study.
The Executive M.B.A./M.S. in Healthcare Leadership, which combines a master’s from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences with an MBA from the Johnson school, graduated its inaugural class in May.