President Martha E. Pollack congratulated about 300 newly minted Ph.D.s in a speech that challenged them to "be an expert in your own discipline," and to "model the ways in which experts think and draw conclusions in everything you do."
Computer science professor Jon Kleinberg will receive the 2013 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, considered the highest for technical excellence in knowledge discovery and data mining, from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Student speaker Tosin Adeniji talked about the power of community at Cornell Tech during Johnson's graduate recognition ceremony May 27. The event celebrated the accomplishments of MBA and Ph.D. graduates in three programs.
Events this week include skating at Lynah Rink; a Tchaikovsky symphony concert; an animated portrait of Vincent Van Gogh; a runway show and designer talk, and a student-curated American landscape exhibit.
Peter Kareiva, Ph.D. '81, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, will deliver the 2013 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture, 'Overcoming Dogma and Prophecies of Doom to Save Nature,' April 22.
Patrick Braga '17 combines his interests in urban planning, music and the architecture of Le Corbusier in his second opera, "Eyes That Do Not See," Nov. 11 in Milstein Hall.
Interim President Hunter Rawlings and Vice President Mary Opperman recognized six award recipients - out of nearly 100 nominees - at the fourth annual High Five Employee Recognition Award Luncheon Nov. 7.
Historian Fredrik Logevall, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, won the Pulitzer Prize April 15 for his acclaimed 2012 book, 'Embers of War.'