We know that Cornell University engineering graduates often rise through the ranks to executive positions, or found and manage new companies of their own. Is there something special about an engineering education that prepares a person for leadership? The Cornell Engineering Alumni Association (formerly Cornell Society of Engineers) will explore that question in this year's annual conference April 21-23 on campus. The conference is titled "Engineering as a Foundation for Business Leadership: Tales from the Frontlines." (April 12, 2005)
Dr. Barbara Hempstead will become dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences on Jan. 14. She succeeds Dr. Carl Nathan, who is completing his planned two-year term.
Students in Jonathan Culler's Major Poets class returned from spring break March 28 to hear M.H. 'Mike' Abrams, the Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, on 'The Fourth Dimension of a Poem.' (March 30, 2011)
Women haven’t reached parity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines, but progressive policies could help, said Sharon Sassler at the Empowering Women in Science and Engineering Symposium.
In the beginning, there were 35 competitors.
The challengers -- Cornell students, faculty members and one very brave elementary-schooler -- took their places around the U-shaped tables. Chess grandmaster and three-time U.S…
Professor of Government Suzanne Mettler had several culprits in mind when she wrote “Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream."
Social science departments are too diffuse for the university to excel in the discipline and should strategically merges some units, according to task force findings discussed Dec. 1.
The CU-ADVANCE Center and Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble held a Sept. 21 seminar to raise awareness for department chairs and search committee representatives about unconscious gender bias and equity in faculty searches. (Sept. 25, 2007)
Cornell faculty marked the 50th anniversary of the Ford Fellowship Program, which supports minority faculty members, at a conference in California. (Sept. 28, 2012)