On Dec. 19, nearly 1,500 Cornell students celebrated their winter graduation in a virtual recognition ceremony viewed around the world – the first such event at Cornell, and a fitting end to what President Martha E. Pollack called “a semester like no other at Cornell.”
Faculty, students and administrators discussed global experiences, opportunities and challenges on campus and abroad at a recent symposium on Internationalizing the Curriculum at Cornell.
Once again, the recognition received by Cornell’s talented amateur photographers is broadened by having both “judges’ choice” and “people’s choice” winners of the university-wide photo contest. Julia Miao’s “An Unveiled Symphony” won "judges' choice"; Cynthia Sedlacek’s “Who Moved My Nest” won "people's choice" ...
Linguistics scholar Gillian Ramchand will present 'Language and the Form-Meaning Connection,' April 14 at 4:30 p.m. at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. (April 4, 2011)
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall will deliver the Hans Bethe lecture May 1. Her talk is titled, 'Knocking on Heaven's Door,' the name of her latest book. (April 11, 2012)
Following its Sundance Film Festival screening, “Kill Your Darlings," co-written by assistant professor Austin Bunn, gained a major distributor and is tentatively scheduled to be in theaters this fall.
Cornell Board of Trustees Chairman Peter Meinig '61 and wife Nancy '62 together will lead the university's efforts to celebrate its 150th anniversary, in 2015. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Mark Ferraguto has been awarded the American Musicological Society's Pisk Prize, which recognizes the most outstanding scholarly paper read by a graduate student at the society's annual meeting. (Jan. 19, 2012)
Geoffrey W. Coates, the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.