Assistant professor of English Mukoma Wa Ngugi's second crime novel, “Black Star Nairobi,” has the 2007-08 Kenyan presidential election season as a backdrop.
James Russell Hicks, an expert in important vegetable storage and post-harvest physiology, died Nov. 26. He was 78. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1976 and became associate professor in 1981.
The body of recent alumna Tine Rubow was recovered from the creek at Taughannock Falls State Park in the afternoon of Dec. 2. New York State Park Police are investigating. (Dec. 3, 2010)
The Cornell Emergency CARE Fund, financed through Cornell community donations to offer emergency-related financial assistance to staff and faculty, is seeking volunteers to help raise funds. (April 20, 2011)
Relay teams hope to squash their competition at the first Big Red Pumpkin Regatta on Beebe Lake Saturday, Oct. 4. It is hosted by a graduate student group Cornell Flotilla.
More than 400 master's and doctoral students were honored May 26 in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Graduate Recognition Ceremony, at Newman Arena.