President Skorton announced that a floor of the University Health Services facility will be named in honor of Vice President Susan H. Murphy ’73, Ph.D. ’94, at a gathering held April 7 to celebrate her career.
A number of events will be held this month to build awareness of sexual assault/violence, harassment and stalking, and to advance a positive sexual climate on campus that works to eliminate sexual violence.
Research must keep up with rapidly changing technology to find beneficial applications, said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam '76 in the 32nd annual Hatfield lecture.
The professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology is one of 210 fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Also inducted was novelist and Cornell alumnus Thomas Pynchon. (April 27, 2009)
A $1 million gift from Kionix Inc., an Ithaca-based company founded to commercialize technology developed at Cornell, has established the Kionix Graduate Fellowship in Engineering. (Oct. 11, 2012)
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, will speak on “Six Degrees of Separation” Sunday, April 26, 1-2:15 p.m. at Bailey Hall, as part of Charter Day.
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.