Alan Mathios, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology, has been reappointed to a second five-year term, beginning July 1, 2013.
President David Skorton travels to Tehran Nov. 14 with a group of U.S. university presidents working to strengthen educational ties between the U.S. and Iran. (Nov. 12, 2008)
Cornell Law School student Nicholas A. Dorsey '09 won the 2008 Judge Bernard S. Meyer Scholarship for his winning legal essay on the Americans with Disabilities Act. (June 24, 2008)
Kim Brown Bixler ’91 entertained a Statler Auditorium crowd July 10 with stories of growing up in the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Rochester, N.Y.
Bonnie Siber Weinstock '75 and Douglas Braunstein '83 will receive, respectively, the Groat and Alpern awards from the ILR School March 26. (March 25, 2009)
The voices of nearly 400 Cornell students discussing their experiences with diversity on campus form the basis of a new study completed this month. Toward New Destinations has been updated to reflect new and expanding initiatives aimed to improve campus climate.
Stephen Nelson, Tariq Thachil, Karrie Koesel and Samatha Majic, all Ph.D. '09 in government, have earned top prizes for their dissertations from the American Political Science Association. (July 21, 2010)
The College of Arts and Sciences’ Active Learning Initiative has changed the curricula in biology and physics and implemented the use of new classroom technologies.
The Cornell Onboarding Center provides a 'one-stop' service for new hires so they can activate their NetIDs, receive their photo IDs and otherwise complete the business of becoming a Cornell employee. (Sept. 7, 2011)
Cornell's 10-year-old Bias Response Program is being reviewed by three campus organizations; four March forums will be held to gather general Cornell community feedback on the program. (Feb. 17, 2011)