A Filipino-American graduate student and a Lebanese-American alumnus are among 30 new Soros fellows, who are immigrants or children of immigrants. (March 10, 2010)
A herpetologist and a political scientist have won Luce scholarships to study in Asia for a year. The Luce Scholars Program began in 1974 to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders. (March 10, 2011)
On May 1 President David Skorton updated the Cornell community on the diversity planning effort Toward New Destinations, highlighting engagement with such off-campus constituents as community organizations and vendors.
Colleagues gathered June 4 to bid farewell to Michele Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education, who is leaving Cornell July 1 for Columbia University. (June 9, 2009)
Mariel Christie '10 of Clifton Park, N.Y., who graduated from Cornell this past May with a B.S. in biological sciences from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, died in Ithaca July 11.
In his new book, Bruno Bosteels examines the revived interest among younger Latin Americans in the ideas of Marx and Freud, after their influence on an earlier generation of activists and artists.
Unmarried couples - whether opposite- or same-sex, in which one partner is an endowed faculty or staff member - will have the same access to Cornell's health and dental insurance, as of Jan. 1. (Oct. 13, 2011)
Faculty members Kenneth Kemphues, genetics; John Lis, molecular biology and genetics; and Sandra Vehrencamp, neurobiology and behavior, were among 198 new members elected.
Tommy Bruce, Cornell vice president for university communications, has been named to the Public Issues Committee of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, through June 2011. (Aug. 13, 2008)