Sophomore Gabe Dean became the 17th NCAA champion in Cornell wrestling history to lead four All-Americans en route to a fifth-place team finish. Dean, one of two Big Red finalists March 21, defeated Lehigh's Nathaniel Brown 6-2 in the finals.
Marina Markot, an international education expert who most recently served at the University of Virginia, has been appointed the new director of Cornell Abroad. She began Aug. 15.
A member of the faculty for 53 years, Henry N. Ricciuti, 93, professor emeritus of human development and an expert on early childhood development, died March 14 at his home in Ithaca. (March 15, 2011)
Events on campus this week include a conference on immigrants and criminalization, a performance of Renaissance and Baroque-era music and dance, a faculty panel discussing "All the President's Men" and contemporary parallels to Watergate, and the St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig singing sacred music.
At the Conference on the Histories of Capitalism on campus Nov. 7, Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said the U.S. is devolving into a plutocracy due to disengaged voters.
Chuck Feeney ’56 received the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy June 17 during the third annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy at the New York Public Library.
Faculty considered the future of research libraries in a Feb. 14 forum. Cornell's librarian noted that 60 percent of the library's collections budget goes to licensing electronic content.