Alexis Santí opened the first of six Soup and Hope talks Jan. 16, reflecting on growing up as an Ithacan and traveling the world before assuming his current position at Cornell.
William J. Lynn III, J.D. '80, has been nominated by President-elect Barack Obama for deputy defense secretary, the No. 2 position at the Pentagon. (Jan. 14, 2009)
Six custodial and housekeeping staff were recognized with the ninth annual Bartels Awards for Service Excellence Dec. 8 in Bartels Hall. Eight children of Cornell staff received Bartels scholarships.
Professor emeritus of city and regional planning Stuart Stein, who taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1993 and assisted in the creation of the Ithaca Commons and the TCAT bus service, died June 24. He was 84.
At a Nov. 13 campus event, Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professor of English, led a discussion about what men can do to change the culture of sexual assault and how students can pressure schools to make them safe.
CUAir took first in flight/mission and second place overall at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s 12th annual Student Unmanned Aerial Systems competition, June 18-22.
Jonathan Butcher and Ruth Ley have received Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards, which provide a total of $300,000 over three years of direct research costs. (April 5, 2010)
Sharon Marine, associate dean for external relations at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, has been named vice president for development at the new CornellNYC Tech campus. (July 20, 2012)
Cornell engineers are adding their expertise in robot autonomy to the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a multi-year, international prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.