More than 200 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students joined 40,000 scientists and boosters to champion knowledge in the first March for Science in Washington, D.C., April 22.
Myra Sabir, assistant dean of admissions and advising, opened the 2012 Soup and Hope series Jan. 19 using excerpts from her work-in-progress to convey her journey toward self-awareness and connection. (Jan. 24, 2012)
A team led by Tobias Hanrath, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has demonstrated controlled fusion of semiconductor quantum dots within a nanoreactor cage of rusty particles.
Faculty members M. Diane Burton and Gerard Aching have accepted appointments as Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement, serving the university's public engagement mission over the next three years.
Emily R. Adelman '05 has received a 2009 Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship, one of only 30 such scholars selected this year from 678 applicants across the country. (Aug. 5, 2009)
Cornell University has announced that 19 of its undergraduate students will receive a scholarship for up to four years -- the 2004 Howard Milstein Scholarship in Arts and Sciences -- based on academic accomplishment and financial need. The annual scholarship, funded by a gift from Cornell alumnus Howard Milstein, was established in 2000 to enhance the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences' ability to attract and enroll some of the world's most intellectually able students. (December 9, 2004)
Richard Penner, who served at the university for more than 40 years - from 1970 to 2012 - died Dec. 11 of progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare degenerative neurological disease. He was 70.