Maria Cristina Garcia and alumnae Renee Alexander '74, Mary Berens '74 and Kristen Rupert '74 were elected honorary members of Sphinx Head recently for service to Cornell. (May 4, 2010)
President David Skorton promoted Cornell's faculty renewal initiative and cited several new faculty hires in his State of the University Address June 8 to alumni and friends during Reunion Weekend.
Valerie Jean Bunce, Theodore Eisenberg, Ronald Hoy and Roberto Sierra have been named fellows by one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. (April 22, 2010)
Laurie Berke-Weiss '71, Seth Harris '83 and Seth 'Yossi' Siegel '74, J.D. '78, were honored at ILR's Celebration 2010 event in New York City April 20. (April 21, 2010)
Leon Heppel, a Cornell professor emeritus of biochemistry and a former National Institutes of Health scientist, died of complications from a respiratory infection April 9 in Ithaca, N.Y. (April 21, 2010)
The end of the Iraq war gives universities the opportunity to hire veterans with leadership abilities and relevant skills in areas such as operations, business, engineering, finance and hospitality. (Jan. 10, 2012)