Women make up 39 percent of Cornell's engineering undergraduates – almost twice the national average, according to a National Science Foundation report. The report also found Cornell has made strides with underrepresented groups in science.
Professor emeritus of city and regional planning Stuart Stein, who taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1993 and assisted in the creation of the Ithaca Commons and the TCAT bus service, died June 24. He was 84.
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, with 18 project installations and performances on the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival," launched Sept. 28-29 with a tour of outdoor projects on campus, artist panels with Cornell contributors and lectures by featured artists Carrie Mae Weems and Xu Bing.
In a move that further strengthens its international mission, the ILR School at Cornell has announced a new dual degree program with the ESCP-EAP European School of Management. (Nov. 14, 2007)
Cornell students who engage in illegal file sharing will not be called before the Judicial Administrator. Instead they will be required to take -- and pass -- an online course in copyright law. (Nov. 12, 2007)
The seventh annual Light in Winter Festival of Arts and Sciences, Jan. 21-24, featured almost two dozen events and many Cornellians, including Jody Enck, who discussed human-wolf bonds.
Cornell professor Laurent Dubreuil will investigate non-standard logic and the cognitive study of language with the help of a $274,000 Mellon New Directions Fellowship. (April 2, 2009)
Cornell’s newly admitted class of freshmen is the most diverse and international in its 150-year history, with prospective undergraduates representing 100 nations from around the world, based on citizenship.