The Cornell NYC Tech campus has reached another milestone: The creation of its first endowed professorship, the Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair, named for Tishman '37, who died in 2010 at age 94.
Shannon Price Minter, J.D. '93, has been named one of six Lawyers of the Year by Lawyers USA, a legal magazine. The list also includes President Barack Obama. (Feb. 3, 2009)
Research must keep up with rapidly changing technology to find beneficial applications, said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam '76 in the 32nd annual Hatfield lecture.
Weill Cornell Medical College students learned where they will do their residency training – the next three to seven years of their medical careers – during national Match Day, March 20.
The Music and Medicine Initiative, a partnership between the Juilliard School and Weill Cornell, gives medical students the chance to continue their musical lives. The spring concert was held March 10 at Lincoln Center.
Artist Laurie Anderson discusses her upcoming "Dirt Day!" performance Sept. 21 at the State Theatre; she also joins Roald Hoffman on an art and science panel Sept. 22 at the Museum of the Earth.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art holds a free seven-hour 40th anniversary celebration Sept. 20, with a public reception for fall exhibitions, performances in the galleries and a '70s dance party.
The Association of American Universities, led by President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III. released a statement Sept. 17 to member institutions including Cornell on the importance of the federal investment in such research.
Cornell University has joined Say Yes to Education Inc., a national nonprofit organization that helps children from urban school districts attend, and pay for, college.