A student startup business at Cornell that uses an online program to track its users' groceries and lets them know when to restock received a $200,000 grand prize award in a startup competition April 8.
Laura Spitz, associate dean for international affairs at Cornell Law School, has been appointed interim vice provost for international affairs, as Fredrik Logevall prepares to step down.
During his annual address April 18 to representatives of local service clubs and the university, President David Skorton enumerated the ways in which Cornell takes its public service role seriously. (April 19, 2012)
The Cornell law professor has expertise in the Middle East, northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East was formerly called the Clarke Middle East Fund. (Jan. 12, 2009)
Cornell's emergency notification system made about 5,800 voice calls in 15 minutes and delivered more than 14,000 text messages Oct. 14, as part of a test of the system. (Oct. 19, 2009)
On March 8, Thaddeus Talbot retraced the steps of civil-rights marchers 1965 trek from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Things have changed, but more remains to be done, Talbot writes.
Professor emerita Sara 'Sally' Blackwell, who played a crucial role in the 1966 reorganization of the College of Human Ecology, died Jan. 4. (Jan. 8, 2009)
Alumni Peter and Stephanie Nolan have endowed the David J. Nolan Directorship of the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell. Professor Loren Tauer will hold the position.
Professors Thomas W. Parks and Stephen B. Pope have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, and trustee N.R. Narayana Murthy has been elected a foreign associate. (Feb. 23, 2010)
Research must keep up with rapidly changing technology to find beneficial applications, said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam '76 in the 32nd annual Hatfield lecture.