A faculty discussion of inequality and its effect on democracy will be held Friday, Sept. 18 at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall as part of the inauguration ceremonies for President Elizabeth Garrett.
William Provine, the Andrew H. and James L. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Cornell, died Sept. 1. due to complications from a brain tumor at his home in Horseheads, New York.
Mark Weinberger, global chairman and CEO of EY, will deliver the 33rd Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education Thursday, Sept. 17. He will talk about the global economy and trends for young professionals.
Vice President Susan Murphy, responding to the appeal by Delta Kappa Epsilon, upheld the revocation decision but reduced the loss of recognition period from a minimum of three years to two years.
David Harris, Cornell University professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell, has been named the university's first vice provost for social sciences, Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced. The part-time position, which Harris will combine with his duties as director of the institute, will have a five-year term effective July 1.
Postcolonial theorist Leela Gandhi delivered a range of approaches to ethics March 30 in Goldwin Smith Hall, in the inaugural talk in the College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Lecture Series.
Millions of bytes of data now streaming to Cornell from the massive Internet Archive will give social and information scientists an unprecedented playing field for research into social networks, sociology department chair Michael…