Dan Luo, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, will receive an editorial board award from the journal for his significant contribution to the materials chemistry field. (May 3, 2010)
Engaged Cornell is seeking proposals for research opportunities for undergraduates, and nominations for a new faculty prize promoting integration of community engagement with teaching and research.
The new issue of diacritics, the review of contemporary criticism published since 1971, focuses on climate change, the threat of nuclear war and the legacy of Jacques Derrida.
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, with 18 project installations and performances on the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival," launched Sept. 28-29 with a tour of outdoor projects on campus, artist panels with Cornell contributors and lectures by featured artists Carrie Mae Weems and Xu Bing.
Cornell University's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Environmental Defense Fund announced four new research projects addressing pressing health and environmental issues Nov. 9. The projects mark the official launch of a new partnership between the two institutions.
At its May 25 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected seven new trustees to four-year terms and one new trustee to a two-year term; they will join two new alumni-elected trustees, the new undergraduate student-elected trustee and four re-elected trustees when terms begin July 1.
Robert Kaul Finn '41, a pioneer in the field of biochemical engineering and professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell, died Nov. 3. He was 92. (Nov. 21, 2012)
John A. (Jack) Krieger, 86, who served as publisher of the Cornell Alumni News in the 1990s, died after a short illness Jan. 14 in Ithaca, N.Y. (Jan. 19, 2011)
Kent Hubbell, B.Arch. '69, is returning to the architecture faculty after serving for 15 years as Cornell's dean of students, a tenure marked by his concern and support for students' well-being.