Engineering students revived the tradition of creating a phoenix float to confront the dragon as it passed the Engineering Quad on Dragon Day 2008. (March 14, 2008)
Events on campus this week include Insectapalooza; a new exhibit; Parents' Weekend concerts; lectures by William Dudley, Spencer Wells and Michael Silverblatt; and the State of the University Address. (Oct. 21, 2010)
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research hosted a Flash Science! speaking competition to give early-career plant scientists experience talking to a general audience May 5.
Toichiro Kinoshita, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus, has received the Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal from the World Federation of Scientists. (June 21, 2010)
Monika Safford, M.D. ’86, has been named chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell, succeeded associate professor Jane Mt. Pleasant effective July 1. (July 25, 2008)
James H. Wyche '65, a biologist, cancer researcher and university administrator, has been appointed provost and chief academic officer at Howard University in Washington, D.C. (March 14, 2011)
Papers are being accepted for the CISSE 2007 conference; Pi Kappa Phi is hosting a charity haunted house; and submissions are being accepted for the first Margaret Bourke-White Photography Portfolio Prize. (Oct. 18, 2007)