Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings announced today a series of administrative changes designed to strengthen the primacy of the academic mission of the university and streamline its central reporting structures.
Scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are asking the public to help monitor the impact on native birds of invasive species, such as the house sparrow, by participating in a citizen-science project called The Birdhouse Network.
A committee charged with improving the first-year experience at Cornell has recommended significant changes in programs and approaches, including a new welcoming annual event for arriving students.
Students attending classes at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center routinely come from different colleges and departments within the university. But in one such class, they come from different universities.
Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist -- will visit the this month and next as A. D. White Professors-at-Large, giving public lectures.
Educational communications experts, World Wide Web programmers, curriculum designers and computer and video technologists are joining forces with Cornell faculty to extend Cornell's educational programs throughout the world.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University students have won 1996 Goldwater Scholarships for their achievements in science and mathematics. The Cornell undergraduates are: Jessika Trancik '97, a materials science and engineering major in the College of Engineering; Robert Kleinberg '97, a mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Daniel Klein '98, a college scholar, also in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Applications for admission to Cornell for fall 1996 have reached the third-highest level in the institution's history, a 2 percent increase over last year. Applications from underrepresented minority groups, with the exception of Native Americans, also increased over last year to be at or near the highest levels for these groups in the past decade, reports Donald A. Saleh, Cornell acting dean of admissions and financial aid.
With more Americans retiring earlier yet living longer than ever before, the country has a growing number of vigorous adults who no longer are in their career jobs but are not old. They are in a life stage for which they and society are totally unprepared.
Continuing a tradition established in 1965, Cornell's Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large will bring four distinguished scholars to campus this semester for formal and informal exchanges with faculty and students. Raphael D. Levine, the Max Born Professor of Natural Philosophy and chairman of the Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics at The Hebrew University.