Festival of Scholarship, on the eve of the inauguration of Martha E. Pollack as Cornell's 14th president, showcases the work of more than 30 student groups.
Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences David R. Harris will be Tufts University's next provost and senior vice president, effective July 1. (March 28, 2012)
Vikram Gadagkar, MS ’10, Ph,D, ’13, was recently awarded a three-year, $234,150 Simons Foundation fellowship with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain.
Research co-led by Robert Raguso, professor of neurobiology and behavior, explains why plants of the same variety in different locations can have dramatically different scents.
Cornell needs to think strategically and boldly, promoting innovation by investing in thought leaders and research, said President David Skorton, addressing members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council, Oct. 25.
Philosopher Jill North, a proponent of wave function realism, has published an essay titled “The Structure of a Quantum World," included in a new book of essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.
On campus this week: CU Winds and Google Glass; a gardening and climate change conference; President Skorton addresses staff; Bill T. Jones at the Schwartz Center; book and literary talks.
Jennie Sims, the recipient of the Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award, is probing why, how and when a cell chooses to repair itself, which has implications in cancer research.
In the second video of the Cornell Leadership Sessions series, President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff discuss the recent decline in cases on campus and lowering of the alert level, among other topics.