Roderick K. Clayton, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the Department of Plant Biology, died Oct. 23. An expert on photosynthesis, he was 89. (Nov. 15, 2011)
The Martin Y. Tang Welcome Center, opening June 1 in the renovated Noyes Lodge, will be the first stop at Cornell for prospective students, parents and thousands of other visitors each year.
A one-acre hop yard was established June 30 as a research planting to bolster the hops revival in New York. The team will soon develop a New York hops grower’s guide as well.
Cornell sent 18 graduate and professional students from the Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City to Capitol Hill for Cornell Advocacy Day April 5.
The ILR School's Labor and Employment Law Program will begin work on a $4.9 million contract to establish the Records Assistance Program to help job applicants with criminal records get jobs.