An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Major League Baseball Commissioner and ILR School alum Robert D. Manfred Jr. '80 grew up exposed to unions and bargaining, skills he uses in his current position.
Richard Thaler, professor of economics at Cornell for nearly two decades, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Oct. 9 for work he began at Cornell.
Three prominent Republicans will speak on campus during April. They are S.E. Cupp '00, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), and former Republican presidential nominee Herman Cain.
Cornell Cinema and the Atkinson Forum in American Studies will present “Koyaanisqatsi” Nov. 3 in Bailey Hall, with a performance of the original score by the Philip Glass Ensemble.
Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future is welcoming five new postdoctoral fellows to campus to translate Cornell research into sustainable solutions.
Lillian Sellati '14 will study uses of Roman and local coins in Roman Britain with the help of a $4,000 Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship. (Dec. 10, 2012)
A Student Assembly resolution has led to a substantive improvement for students: Faculty can now make course syllabi available online before students enroll in classes. The syllabi are on Cornell's official Class Roster website.