The six-month search for Cornell University's 12th president has ended with the announcement that David J. Skorton, president of the University of Iowa.
The Cornell Black Alumni Association is helping first-time alumni authors with a new literary grant program. The first recipient is Dionne M. Benjamin '00, who envisioned a book series called “City Kids.”
John (Jack) E. Oliver, Cornell professor emeritus of earth and atmospheric sciences and a founding contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, died Jan. 5 at his home in Ithaca. (Jan. 10, 2011)
Vice Provost Robert Buhrman has issued a statement congratulating SRI International for being selected by the NSF to manage the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico for the next five years. (June 3, 2011)
Theodore “Ted” Eisenberg, the Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, died Feb. 23 at age 66. Eisenberg was one of the Cornell Law School's most prolific scholars.
With singing, dancing and labor politics too controversial for the 1930s, 'The Cradle Will Rock' will open the 2005-06 theater season at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
The Cornell community welcomed new students with a communal outdoor meal Aug. 24 on the Arts Quad.
Picnic on the Quad, a new Welcome Weekend event this year, brought hundreds of students, faculty and staff together for lunch on…
For the 10th year, the Cornell Public Service Center has offered students Alternative Breaks to do service learning over spring break at various locations. This year, some 90 students participated. (April 6, 2010)
Fuertes Observatory will open its doors for a celebration of the first International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Sept. 18, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. (Sept. 9, 2010)
Events this week include a concert celebrating Joseph Haydn, a free Ellis Paul show, a film on American financial collapse and conferences on autism and networks and mobility.