Maura Cullen, an authority on diversity issues on college campuses, encouraged her audience to evaluate inherent biases and to overcome them in a campus talk Sept. 11.
Thirteen social scientists from across the university are joining the Institute for the Social Sciences as fellows-in-residence during the 2015-16 academic year.
Laura Spitz has been appointed vice provost for international affairs effective Dec. 1, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has announced. She has been serving as interim vice provost since July of this year.
L. Pearce Williams ’49, Ph.D. ‘52, who taught the history of Western civilization and the history of science for four decades at Cornell, died Feb. 7 in Ithaca. He was 87.
Three Cornell undergraduates have won 2014 Barry Goldwater Scholarships, which support sophomores and juniors intending to pursue careers in natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.
Daniel Eduardo Ferrero, 26, a second-year student in the Law School, was found dead in his Quarry Street apartment Dec. 12. He died of natural causes. (Dec. 14, 2010)
Julius Lucks, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Marco Seandel, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology in surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, are NIH "New Innovators."