Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg has received the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his contributions to improving Web search techniques and studies of networking. (May 5, 2009)
Professor Fatou Sow, chair of the Department of Social Sciences of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire at UniversitŽ Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, will give a University Lecture on "Challenging the State: Women's Rights and the Future of Africa," April 4.
Meridian 180, an online and transpacific think tank in three languages for multidisciplinary working groups from around the world to promote real policy changes, has officially launched. (March 20, 2012)
Barclay G. Jones, Cornell professor of city and regional planning and regional science who was a noted expert on protecting historic structures from earthquake damage and on the social and economic devastation of national disasters, died May 26 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.
The Youth, Identities and Transnational Flows conference, March 3-5, featured performances and speakers on such topics as ethnic identities, urban conflict, human rights and immigration. (March 8, 2011)
The new library Animal Legends exhibition opened with a lecture by Vice Provost Laura Brown on 'Love, Paradise, and the Rise of the Animal in English Literature,' March 4. (March 8, 2011)
Examining data for 1990 to 2003, Cornell Professor William White and other researchers found that discounts secured by managed-care organizations declined between 2001 and 2003. (March 13, 2008)