Roxanne Yamins '12 has won the Cornell Undergraduate Artist Award for 2011 from the Cornell Council for the Arts. With its proceeds, she hopes create sculptures reflecting Ithaca's front porches. (June 14, 2011)
Professor Robert Morgan will join a group of esteemed writers including Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry and his late colleague A.R. Ammons in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame later this month. (Oct. 7, 2010)
Kenneth A. McClane ’73, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor Emeritus of Literature, spoke about friendship in a Phi Beta Kappa lecture on campus Oct. 28. He drew on experiences growing up in Harlem.
The departments of astronomy and physics will celebrate the life of astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. in Barnes Hall. (March 9, 2009)
Graduate student Jade Woods Moore, 24, was killed in a two-vehicle accident Oct. 5 on Route 13, north of Ithaca. Her husband, Bill Moore, was injured in the collision and died Oct. 6 at Robert Packer Hospital.
The Federation of Fly Fishers has awarded Clifford Kraft, associate professor of natural resources, its Aldo Leopold Award 'for outstanding contributions to fisheries and land ecology.' (Aug. 10, 2009)
Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program, has honored nine of its own graduating seniors for community service and leadership; their awards will be used to benefit others. (May 24, 2010)
A Jesuit priest argued that faith can inform science rather than impede it in the semiannual Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society on campus Nov. 11.
The 4,000-square-foot Center for Nanomaterials Engineering and Technology is open for business with students, researchers and companies looking to use its state-of-the-art equipment.