Robert Plane, a professor emeritus of chemistry who served as the university’s provost during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, died Aug. 6 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90.
After 20 years of leadership that transformed Weill Cornell Medical College into a global health care enterprise, Sanford I. Weill ’55 will retire as chair of the Board of Overseers Jan. 1. Jessica M. Bibliowicz ’81, a financial services entrepreneur who has served on the board for the past decade, will succeed him.
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
Adeeb Khalid, professor of Asian studies and history at Carleton College, will present 'The Many Ways of Being Muslim in the Modern World: Episodes From the Soviet History of Islam,' Oct. 26. (Oct. 13, 2010)
President Elizabeth Garrett formed the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group last November to focus on improving climate trends by spurring cross-disciplinary solutions on campus and globally.
Cornell representatives attended in the first board meeting in Chile of the institutions planning to build the world's largest submillimeter wavelength telescope.
In an exclusive symposium designed for Cornell students, officials from the United Nations detailed a new 15-year initiative on battling climate change worldwide.
Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, spoke to the Chronicle about an upcoming conference and its theme of collaboration.
David I. Owen, professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic studies, was honored Oct. 29 at a symposium in his honor titled 'Power and Knowledge in Ancient Iraq' at the A.D. White House. (Nov. 1, 2010)
Hirokazu Miyazaki, associate professor of anthropology, studied a group of Japanese derivatives traders for his new book, 'Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance.'