Peter Lepage, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will step down June 30, 2013. He will have served for 10 years, longer than all but one of the college's 19 previous deans.
The Cornell Black Alumni Association is helping first-time alumni authors with a new literary grant program. The first recipient is Dionne M. Benjamin '00, who envisioned a book series called “City Kids.”
Professor Amy Villarejo new book, “Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire,” offers a look at the ways that TV representations of queer life have changed since the 1950s.
At its May 25 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected seven new trustees to four-year terms and one new trustee to a two-year term; they will join two new alumni-elected trustees, the new undergraduate student-elected trustee and four re-elected trustees when terms begin July 1.
Theodore “Ted” Eisenberg, the Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, died Feb. 23 at age 66. Eisenberg was one of the Cornell Law School's most prolific scholars.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack met with Cornell faculty members July 29 to learn about solutions in the realm of dairy, nutrition and climate change.
New York State Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R-54th Dist., announced $600,000 in state funds to bring a new food processing technology to Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.
The editorial director of the ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, was honored for advancing the field of labor relations. (Jan. 24, 2011)