A collection of visual and written materials on South Asian architecture and material culture assembled by the late Cornell professor and dean Robert 'Scotty' MacDougall is now available to a global audience. (Feb. 2, 2009)
Sports historian Steven Riess, Northeastern Illinois University, will deliver the inaugural Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History on April 21, discussing Seymour's writing of baseball history. (April 12, 2010)
Events on campus this week include a new exhibit at the Museum of the Earth, a blood drive, and many events, tours and lectures of general interest held in conjunction with Reunion 2010. (June 3, 2010)
Sherman Cochran, a Cornell professor of Chinese history, has been awarded the annual Joseph Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies for his 2006 book 'Chinese Medicine Men.'
A memorial symposium to celebrate Nobel laureate Ken Wilson’s scientific achievements will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, beginning at 9 a.m.
Veteran stage, television and film actor Harold Gould, M.A. '48, Ph.D. '53, best known for his roles in 'The Sting' and 'Rhoda,' died Sept. 11 in Woodland Hills, Calif. (Sept. 14, 2010)
Cornell Professor Ross Brann described how Islam enriched Judaism, speaking at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City March 15 at an event sponsored by Cornell Hillel. (March 20, 2012)
Adam Seth Levine '03, assistant professor government, will receive the 2011 E.E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association. (Aug. 17, 2011)
Kathleen Foley has received a 2006 Trustees' Merit Citation from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Misty Urban won a first prize for fiction in the 21st annual New Letters Awards for Writers contest.
A Cornell-led research team has proposed a way to measure the forces between the particles that surround defects in colloidal crystals, which could help predict the behavior of materials under stress.