Using ancient Greek texts on war and honor to teach critical reading skills, President Rawlings led one of the class sessions in the 2016 Warrior Scholar Project July 27.
In a message to faculty and staff, Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett announced the appointment of Michael Kotlikoff as the university's 16th provost.
President Martha E. Pollack gave alumni a sense of her academic background, traced her path to Cornell and gave full-throated affirmations of free speech, the value of a college education and expanding opportunities in NYC.
Bill Nye '77, known to a generation as "The Science Guy," celebrated his 40th class reunion by giving a talk in Bailey Hall titled, "Everything All At Once: How Cornellians Will Save The World."
The professor of mathematics was named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics during an Aug. 1 induction ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings/IMS Annual Meeting in Miami. (Aug. 16, 2011)
Griffin Smith-Nichols ’19 spent three nights last week cowering on a set of lounge chairs in the Schwartz Center’s Black Box Theatre. He played the slightly mad, mostly murderous and often humorous Orestes.
Students in a Mellon collaborative studies seminar in architecture, urbanism and the humanities spent eight days in Cuba this semester to study the island's changing politics and environment.