David Archer '05, a former football captain as a player and architect of the Big Red's recent recruiting success, has been named the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Football.
Improvements to the lower entrance of Cascadilla Glen - and a metal artist's gate, in particular - have earned Cornell Plantations a 2013 Pride of Ownership award.
Peter Davies, a Cornell plant physiologist, will serve as an adviser to the U.S. government on agricultural and food policy issues as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. Department of State. (April 27, 2011)
The Starr Foundation, chaired by Maurice R. Greenberg, has committed $6 million to the College of Veterinary Medicine. The gift will create two endowed professorships in clinical research.
Cornell has signed an agreement with the government of Paraguay to further international outreach, fieldwork and exchange of information and resources.
Ted Lowi will receive the American Political Science Association's 2008 James Madison Award, which recognizes a career of scholarly excellence. It is one of the highest accolades of the profession. (April 10, 2008)
Former Vice President Joe Biden extolled his love of ice cream and his optimism for the future of America in his 2017 Senior Convocation Address at Cornell, May 27 at Schoellkopf Field.
Takuma Itoh, Christopher Stark and Eric Nathan, doctoral candidates in composition in music, received American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation composer awards. (Aug. 25, 2010)