English professor George Hutchinson is the fifth director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, whose programs serve Cornell students in every school and college.
Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Kelly Zamudio will analyze the effects of active learning activity modules on learning goals for classroom lectures as the 2017-18 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Cornell.
Engineer, entrepreneur, innovator and philanthropist Irwin Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56, will speak at Cornell and be presented with the second Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award on Monday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall Auditorium.
The new book by anthropologist Marina Welker is an ethnographic study of the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its Batu Hijau Copper and Gold Mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia.
Frank H.T. Rhodes, Cornell University’s ninth president, a national figure in higher education and an esteemed paleontologist, died Feb. 3 in Bonita Springs, Florida. He was 93.
Melodramatics Theatre Company and Teatrotaller, Cornell’s Hispanic and Latinx Theatre Troupe, have collaborated on an innovative take on the classic musical “West Side Story,” playing April 22-24.