Joel Malina, CEO and general manager of Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates in Washington, D.C., has been appointed vice president for university relations, President David J. Skorton announced Jan. 9.
Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, is internationally recognized for his research on retroviruses and the genetic basis of cancer.
Cornell Procurement Services has exceeded its savings goal of $30 million through process efficiencies and by changing the ways goods and services are bought for Cornell from outside vendors.
VPSI Inc., the national leader in commuter vanpool companies, is working with TCAT,Cornell and others to offer a complement to traditional transit service to Tompkins County. (Sept. 15, 2009)
Cornell President David Skorton joined 165 university presidents and chancellors to call on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”
Five departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – Plant Biology, Horticulture, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Crop and Soil Sciences, and Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology – have been consolidated into the School of Integrative Plant Science.
Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is one of five faculty members in the nation to receive one of the new Inclusive Excellence Awards from Ernst & Young LLP. (Sept. 14, 2009)
Weill Cornell Medicine conferred degrees on 139 medical doctors, 62 Ph.D.s, 34 physician assistants and 23 with Master of Science degrees at Carnegie Hall May 25.
Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen spoke on campus Oct. 22 about Vladimir Putin's use of homophobia to retain control of Russia.
President Martha E. Pollack outlined how Cornell "can and will be the model of a relevant, premier university for the 21st century" during her State of the University address Oct. 20 in Statler Auditorium.