Cornell economist Kaushik Basu has been named president-elect of the International Economic Association. He will assume the position of president in 2017.
Many people die in ways inconsistent with their values and wishes. Planning ahead provides an opportunity to think about and communicate what you do and don’t want at the end of life.
Cornell University Press has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant worth nearly $100,000 to fund the open access initiative, Cornell Open.
Events on campus this week feature women filmmakers educated at Cornell, and others include a keyboard concert, a a talk by 'Mad Men' writer and producer Semi Chellas, and book talks.
Six faculty members are recipients of 2018 Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships, receiving funds to develop or expand courses, and add teaching assistants.
Luigi Einaudi received the the Perry Award for Excellence in Defense and Security Education at the National Defense University's William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies Jan. 12.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts is launching new initiatives, experiments in collaboration and fresh opportunities for students in the 2013-14 Schwartz Center season.
Provost Kent Fuchs has announced that Stephanie Wiles, director of Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum since 2004, will be the next director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
CR0WD, a Cornell-powered, community-led task force works with New York State communities to promote thoughtful building deconstruction and highlight the environmental, cultural, and, economic value of salvage, reuse, and closed material flows.