Faculty and administrators discussed balancing the rising expense of financial aid against maintaining and enhancing the university’s academic profile at a faculty forum, “Financial Aid Policies: Unimaginable Outcomes?” Oct. 21.
Twelve Cornell women assistant professors have been awarded research grants by the Affinito-Stewart Grants Program to advance research necessary to obtain tenure.
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., president and CEO of TIAA-CREF, will deliver the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s 26th Durland Lecture Thursday, Oct. 17.
The unique Teatrotaller (Spanish for theater-workshop), a mix of academics and performance in Spanish, has been going strong ever since Cornell students founded it in 1993 to promote Latino cultures. (Feb. 26, 2010)
In a new opinion piece in a major publication, Morten Christiansen, professor of psychology, calls for a new era of integration in the language sciences, which has fragmented into many highly-specialized areas of study.
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
The structural steelwork of Paul Milstein Hall will take shape starting in April; the facilities expansion for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning is on schedule to open in August 2011. (Feb. 18, 2010)
An international research group led by Cornell University has found that plastic trash – ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans – intensifies disease for coral, adding to reef peril.
Cornell’s Climate Smart Farming program has added a fifth online tool – the New York State/Northeast Drought Atlas – to help regional farmers cope with an era of global warming.
The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on the Cornell campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events. (Oct. 16, 2008)