The new New York City facilities of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at 50 W. 17th St. sparkled at a preview reception for about 150 trustees, alumni, faculty and friends, Jan. 19.
Muna Ndulo, professor of law and director of the Institute for African Development, won the New York Africana Studies Association's 2012 Distinguished Africanist Award. (Jan. 24, 2012)
The Republican candidate for the 24th Congressional District visited Cornell May 13 for a tour of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. (May 21, 2010)
Members of the Presidential Search Committee began with a list of more than 300 candidates, said Jan Rock Zubrow '77, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chair of the search committee.
Assistant Professor of English Ernesto Quinonez read from and recalled the book tour for his first novel 'Bodega Dreams' at the final Literary Luncheon of the semester Dec. 2.
Harold Scheraga, Cornell's Todd Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, will be honored with a symposium and room naming, in honor of his 90th birthday, Sept. 23-24. (Sept. 19, 2011)
G. Peter Lepage, chair of the Cornell University Department of Physics since July 1999, will serve as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for a one-year term, beginning July 1. The appointment was announced by Provost Biddy Martin, in consultation with President Hunter Rawlings and President-elect Jeffrey Lehman. Martin informed the College of Arts and Sciences faculty today (May 12) that Robert Fefferman, the Louis Block Professor and former chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, had decided, after what he has described as a difficult decision-making process, to accept the position of dean of physical sciences at the University of Chicago, where he has spent his entire academic career. (May 13, 2003)
The new book, “Science Beneath the Surface: A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale,” attempts to offer a reader-friendly, unbiased, scientific guide needed to make well-informed decisions regarding “fracking” in the Marcellus Shale.
Fifty Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars presented their work at the annual Senior Expo in the Biotechnology Building April 14. (April 19, 2011)