Cornell's annual Service Recognition Dinner, honoring the dedicated work of Cornell staff who are celebrating 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years of service, was held May 17 in the Ramin Room of Bartels Hall.
Eswar Prasad's latest book, "Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi," describes how China's currency is reshaping global finance, and explores the implications for the dollar's status as the dominant global reserve currency.
Students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a gallery installation at the Johnson Museum in a course in the "Connecting Research With Practice" initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.
The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages.
Four Cornell computer scientists - Ari Juels, Rafael Pass, Thomas Ristenpart and Vitaly Shmatikov - are members of a new cybersecurity, privacy and cryptography reach group at Cornell Tech.
Cornell hosted a recent conference where students, faculty and staff from various institutions shared experiences, practices and research in the growing field of intergroup dialogue.
More than 50 students from five student groups, in addition to Cornell senior administrators and other employees, volunteered at Employee Celebration, which hosted about 3,200 Cornell employees, retirees and their families.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will give modular, open-source breeding software resources to plant breeders in the developing world.
Alan Collmer will direct the new School of Integrative Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The school will integrate five current departments.
The Prudence Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts celebrates its 100th anniversary with a series of centennial events Nov. 21-24.