Last fall the Cornell Senior Leaders Climate Action Group submitted its report exploring heating and energy options for the Ithaca campus to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. Here, Provost Kotlikoff discusses the university's next steps.
Part motivational speech, part socio-economic update, Ricardo Martinelli's April 11 talk wove personal anecdotes with statistics demonstrating the positive changes his administration has effected.
The Campus Savings and Efficiencies Committee says that improving efficiency in e-SHOP as well as in printing and energy use will be among the university's first cost-saving efforts. (Feb. 16, 2009)
More Cornellians live in the Northeast corridor than anywhere else in the world. The Division of Alumni Affairs and Development is expanding its New York City focus to better reach them. (May 26, 2010)
Jesse Horn, J.D. '10, always loved being an advocate for others, and he had a particularly compelling reason for recognizing the work of advocates before him. (May 26, 2010)
Jay Walker '77, founder of Priceline.com, kicked off an exhibit of rare artifacts from his collection with a Reunion lecture on why imagination has been the driving force behind human invention.
Author and illustrator Bente Starcke King will demonstrate botanical drawing and watercolor techniques and sign copies of her new book, Beautiful Botanicals in the Cornell Plantations Garden Gift Shop on campus.
Davina Desnoes has been named budget director and John Adams is now assistant vice president for planning and budget, both in the Division of Planning and Budget. (Dec. 16, 2010)
Lance Collins, professor and the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering for a five-year term beginning July 1.