Cornell will celebrate its 144th Graduation Weekend. The Senior Convocation Address will be given by Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, May 26.
Undergrads from the School of Hotel Administration collaborated with students from a range of disciplines to create Cornell Blockchain, a club that aims to develop the next generation of blockchain leaders.
Associate professor of English Philip Lorenz studies the representations of sovereignty and power in the work of William Shakespeare and two other Renaissance playwrights in his new book, "The Tears of Sovereignty."
Lecturer and fiction writer Elizabeth Tshele, MFA '10, whose pen name is NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story 'Hitting Budapest.' (July 15, 2011)
Students in Ewa Harabasz's Painting II class turned a stairwell in East Sibley Hall into a canvas for a spring semester project, inspired by graffiti and other painting techniques. (June 9, 2008)
Concern for the safety of Indian families riding scooters--- and doodles he made in the boardroom - led to the development of the Tata Nano, Ratan Tata '59, B.Arch. '62 said at a symposium on the car. (March 16, 2011)
A research team led by chemistry professor Hening Lin has discovered a novel protein post-translational regulatory mechanism that shows promise in suppressing the proliferation of cancer cells.
Acclaimed educator, designer and author Dagmar Richter has been appointed to chair the Department of Architecture, effective July 1. She comes to Cornell from UCLA. (May 13, 2009)
Shawn Mankad, assistant professor of operations, technology and information management, has won a grant from the National Science Foundation to create new tools to monitor the stability of the financial system.