We know that Cornell University engineering graduates often rise through the ranks to executive positions, or found and manage new companies of their own. Is there something special about an engineering education that prepares a person for leadership? The Cornell Engineering Alumni Association (formerly Cornell Society of Engineers) will explore that question in this year's annual conference April 21-23 on campus. The conference is titled "Engineering as a Foundation for Business Leadership: Tales from the Frontlines." (April 12, 2005)
More than 100 City and Regional Planning alumni will return to campus Oct. 15-16 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of planning at Cornell, with events including alumni panels and an exhibit. (Oct. 6, 2010)
Yoke San Reynolds, who has served as vice president for financial affairs and university controller at Cornell for the past three years and who has brought substantial changes to the university's financial function, will leave Cornell in May to become the University of Virginia's vice president for finance.
Several Cornell Library donors talked about the thrill of building specialized collections at a Cornell Library Salon March 16 at the Grolier Club in New York City. (March 22, 2010)
Serena Suewei Chan, a Cornell graduate student in statistical science, has been awarded a grant to research bioterrorism for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The announcement was made by U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, whose district includes parts of Cornell. Chan, who was chosen by the agency from among 2,500 applicants, will work with her adviser, Gennady Samorodnitsky, professor of operations research and industrial engineering, to develop an epidemiological computer model of how terrorists could create an epidemic, such as smallpox. (September 22, 2003)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will attend the summit meeting of the Council on Competitiveness at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 12 and 13.
The Joseph N. Pew Sundial, designed by Cornell President Emeritus Dale Corson and Professor Emeritus Richard Phelan, has spent the last few months in the basement of Clark Hall undergoing repairs.
The schedule change for health and dental plans and for Select Benefits reimbursement accounts will ensure that faculty and staff members will have their health and dental cards by the new year. (Aug. 19, 2009)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Cornell $5,897,513 over five years to establish the National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (ACERT).
Cornell University neuroscientists knew they had one amazing fly on their hands when they testedOrmia ochracea , a tiny insect parasite with such acute directional hearing that it has inspired a new generation of hearing aids and nanoscale listening devices.