Political and foreign relations experts including Russian-American journalist Julia Ioffe will explore the crisis in Ukraine at a public panel discussion March 14 in Uris Auditorium.
Sociology professor Victor Nee was recently honored by the international Academy of Management with an award for his recent book project on the emergence and growth of a private enterprise economy in China.
Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.
A celebration is in order: Thirty years ago, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University opened its doors, ushering in a new era in higher education for black students and scholars. The center's creation remains one of the remarkable, lasting accomplishments of the Black Power struggle of the 1960s and 1970s.
Architecture critic Robert Campbell lectured Sept. 12 in honor of Roger Trancik's retirement after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning and landscape architecture. (Sept. 23, 2008)
In the war against MRSA, constructing single-patient rooms – rather than sick-bay style, multi-patient rooms – reduces hospital-acquired infections among patients, says new Cornell-led study.
Researchers have received almost half a million dollars to fight the invasive brown marmorated stink bug, which has the potential to destroy New York's crops.
Kyle Shen, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded $566,000 over three years from the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program. (March 29, 2012)
Five Cornell undergraduates presented original research Nov. 7 at the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program's 2009 regional conference, for students from historically disadvantaged groups. (Nov. 10, 2009)