Lisa Staiano-Coico, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, has been named provost of Temple University, effective July 1. (March 23, 2007)
Peter Michalik, a 1997 graduate of Cornell, won a 1998 Jacob K. Javitz Fellowship in humanistic studies this spring. The award provides up to $15,000 per year for up to four years of graduate study.
Twelve second-year pre-med students from Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar spent summer 2007 in Ithaca working with top researchers, and enrollment in the medical programs continues to increase.
During the Blizzard of '96, news reports of roof failures throughout the Northeast corridor -- from Boston to Washington -- prompted Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell and Kent State University researchers to prepare an "Evaluation of East Coast Snow Loads Following the January 1996 Storms."
Receiving standing ovations both before and after he delivered his farewell State of the University address June 10, Cornell Interim President Hunter Rawlings told the packed Bartels Hall alumni group during Reunion Weekend that…
President David Skorton is keen to 'champion the aspirations of Cornell faculty and strengthen relationships with alumni' in his upcoming trip to East Asia -- his first tour of the region as Cornell's president. (Oct. 18, 2007)
Mother Nature had its own April Fools' prank in store for the Northeast -- it took only the first day of this month to record the snowiest April ever for Boston, Worcester, Mass., and Providence, R.I., according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
A former Cornell graduate student's documentary film of an impoverished Brooklyn family is the catalyst for a symposium addressing societal, legal, cultural and clinical issues affecting millions of Americans daily.
Susan E. Lynch, an active supporter of Cornell University, has established the Susan Eckert Lynch Professorship in Science and Business in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).