Political luminary Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., highlights Cornell University's 145th Graduation Weekend May 24-26. Booker speaks May 25 at the Senior Convocation, while Commencement is held May 26.
Lorraine Fitzmaurice '13 will conduct the Dec. 5 concert at Sage Chapel, 'War and Politics: The Dirty Side of Early Music.' She is passionate about the back history of the pieces she works on. (Dec. 3, 2012)
Cornell apparel design sophomores Brandon Wen and Laura Zwanziger have created a plus-size mannequin on which to design, along with a collection of clothes they call Rubens' Women.
Cornell needs to think strategically and boldly, promoting innovation by investing in thought leaders and research, said President David Skorton, addressing members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council, Oct. 25.
The American Chemical Society has cited Cornell Professors Roald Hoffmann, Christopher Ober and Harold Scheraga with 'true excellence in their contributions to the chemical enterprise.' (Aug. 3, 2009)
The $125,000 grant will fund the 21st Century Graduate Teaching and Research Scholars Program, through which graduate students will learn about and use high-impact teaching practices. (May 31, 2012)
Roderick K. Clayton, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the Department of Plant Biology, died Oct. 23. An expert on photosynthesis, he was 89. (Nov. 15, 2011)
Assistant Professor Kathleen Vogel will use the grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a study on U.S. and former Soviet Union bioweapons history. (May 13, 2008)
Signaling one way the university will streamline its operations, the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development is insourcing its communications to the Division of University Communications. (Aug. 25, 2010)
New interdisciplinary research on photocathodes by physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare has the potential to dramatically improve accelerator performance.