Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.
On Jan. 2, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ new New York City headquarters and conference center opened in the historic General Electric building at 570 Lexington Ave. Several other Cornell colleges, units and programs will soon be using space in the building.
Venture capitalist Dan Miller '78 asked Cornell students to leverage their degrees in agriculture, engineering and business to become clean tech entrepreneurs in a campus talk Oct. 7.
The benefits open enrollment period for endowed faculty and staff began Nov. 1 and runs through Nov. 30. The annual Benefair will be held Nov. 9, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at G10 Biotechnology Building. (Nov. 1, 2011)
About 2,400 staff, faculty, retirees and their families attended the 2014 winter Employee Celebration, Jan. 25, which included dinner and athletic events.
Events this week include a climate rally, talks and films on climate change; a play depicting a soccer team’s coming of age; and a celebration of Korean language and culture.
Cornell has extended its early decision admissions and financial aid deadline by one week, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8, in response to technical problems applicants have experienced with a new version of the Common Application.
More than 50 high school students from across the state visited Cornell March 31-April 1 for the New York Youth Institute, the state-level World Food Prize youth program engaging students with issues related to agriculture and food security.