Faculty members Kenneth Kemphues, genetics; John Lis, molecular biology and genetics; and Sandra Vehrencamp, neurobiology and behavior, were among 198 new members elected.
Whether or not Vladimir Putin gains Crimea, he’s effectively lost the Ukraine, panelists agreed March 14 at the campus event, “Ukraine, Putin and the New Cold War,” at which Julia Ioffe, a senior editor at The New Republic, gave a keynote address.
The Institute for the Social Sciences recently concluded theme project tackled tried to learn how sociologists, psychologists, economists and others struggle to understand one another.
Students in architecture, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture and Asian and religious studies spent several days together this fall exploring conditions in Southeast Asian cities.
Tickets are on sale through Oct. 2 for the annual Cornell Employee Celebration, which will feature a variety of Cornell athletic events and a community dinner in Barton Hall, Saturday, Oct. 10. (Sept. 16, 2009)
Eight faculty members have received Stephen H. Weiss Awards for excellence in their teaching of undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education.
Events on campus this week include a lecture on plant wisdom, heavy metal fashion, a Russian poet, films by Orson Welles and a panel on Latinos at Cornell.
President David Skorton and Joseph Fins of Weill Cornell Medical College have been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Three Cornell graduate students are among 27 awardees of the 2010-11 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Program, which has contributed more than $1 million to support top doctoral candidates across the nation. (Oct. 11, 2010)