The 56th Annual Service Recognition Dinner was held March 31 to recognize 268 long-serving staff members who have worked at Cornell for 25 or more years and were celebrating a fifth-year milestone. (April 7, 2011)
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.
The Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP), which helps veterans transition from a military to academic environment through one week of classes at a college or university, will be offered at Cornell for the third year this summer, July 23-30.
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.
Cornell Library is asking other research institutions to contribute to the support of the online arXiv repository of science and mathematics preprints. (Jan. 25, 2010)
To see if rural towns benefit from selling local farm products to urban consumers, the USDA awarded a $500,000 grant on Feb. 25 to a team of Cornell researchers led by economist Todd Schmit.
Quacquarelli Symonds has published its first World University Rankings by individual discipline, with Cornell making the top 25 in every category. (May 19, 2011)