Inventor and MIT professor Robert Langer '70, who holds nearly 1,100 patents and founded more than 25 companies, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2015.
Passionate about strengthening sustainability, battling climate change and improving a polluted world, Cornell students met Dec. 6 to begin forming an alliance of more than three dozen campus sustainability groups.
Africana professor Riche Richardson will travel to Montgomery, Ala., to speak at the 100th birthday celebration of the late civil rights icon Rosa Parks Feb. 4.
Mark P. Talbert, a senior lecturer in information systems at the School of Hotel Administration, died Oct. 19 at his home in Ithaca. He was 55. The funeral will be Oct. 25-26 in Pennsylvania.
Will Gluck ’93, who recently co-wrote and directed the reimagined film "Annie," returned to campus Oct. 16 as part of the Munschauer Career Series to offer students career advise.
Emeritus Professor of Music Marice Stith, who as director of bands conducted the Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band for 23 years, has died. He was 89.
Events this week include a Glee Club concert; new films and Ithaca filmmakers at Cornell Cinema; a Cornell-developed technology showcase in Duffield Hall and new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum.
Kate Walsh, MPS ’90, has been named the seventh dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced June 16. She is the first female dean of the Hotel School and the second alumnus to lead it.
The Cornell Council for the Arts is accepting grant applications through April 17 for new, exceptional arts projects to be exhibited or performed at Cornell during the 2017‐18 academic year.
Fifty-five Cornell graduates have joined the incoming Teach for America corps of 5,900 individuals this year, making Cornell the eighth-biggest contributor of new teachers this year among top colleges and universities of its size.