Colleagues held a celebration and symposium to mark Per Pinstrup-Andersen’s retirement Dec. 13-14 following 40 years of combating world poverty and malnutrition.
The North American Maple Syrup Council awarded its inaugural Richard G. Haas Distinguished Service Award to the Maple Program; Peter Smallidge received an award from the Society of America Foresters. (Nov. 7, 2011)
Communication professor Drew Margolin studies human dynamics through social media and has been tracking how people react to presidential candidates on Twitter.
Colin Parrish, Ph.D. ’84, an expert in animal virology, will share share his knowledge and ideas as a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, as Fulbright scholar.
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities awarded Stephen Philip Johnson, Cornell vice president for government and community relations, with its Betty Colden Memorial Awards Aug. 9 in Charleston, S.C.
A participant in the Runway Program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute of Cornell Tech in New York City has won a $250,000 prize in the second 76West Clean Energy Competition.
Cornell engineers have demonstrated a method for gathering vital signs using a cheap and covert system of radio-frequency signals and microchip "tags."
At 107 years old, Olaf Larson is Cornell’s oldest living faculty member. When asked to explain his longevity, the professor emeritus of rural sociology quipped: “That’s a secret.” And then he laughed.