The Buildings and Properties Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees unanimously approved the design phase of the new humanities building, the first at Cornell in over 100 years. (Jan. 20, 2012)
Joe Burns, professor of astronomy and the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering, has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. (March 12, 2009)
The University Assembly wants to eliminate a clause in its charter that requires 20 percent of each of its constituencies to vote each time they want to change the charter. (April 7, 2010)
Production of Cornell Dairy ice cream resumed September 2013, sending frozen milk and tantalizing flavors burbling through all that stainless steel and into containers with a redesigned Cornell Dairy logo.
Undergraduates directly elected Student Assembly president and executive vice president for the first time, with a record voter turn out. (March 10, 2009)
Phil '71 and Susan Bartels announced the endowment of the annual Bartels Award, as well as an annual scholarship for two custodial staff members and two children of the Building Care family. (Dec. 1, 2009)
William Rosen, a lecturer in the College of Human Ecology's Department of Policy Analysis and Management, died of brain cancer May 19 at his home in Brooktondale, N.Y. (May 21, 2008)
At the Sept. 9 Day of Statistics event, Turnbull will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his career in statistical science and his leadership in helping form the Department of Statistical Science.
The 30th Cornell Fashion Collective runway show incorporates use of futuristic materials that detect heat and glow in the dark, April 12 in Barton Hall.