On Oct. 24, "Education in America: What Do We Do Now?" featured a keynote address by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, remarks by SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, and a panel discussion with Bush and Zimpher moderated by President David Skorton.
With ecological viability threatened, world resources draining, the population burgeoning and despair running rampant, the end is nigh. Larry Cathles, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, begs to differ.
With a $2 million gift from trustee Robert Harrison '76, the post of house professor-dean of Hans Bethe House has been endowed and named in honor of Cornell's eighth president, Dale R. Corson. (Sept. 9, 2009)
Cornell professors Steve Zinder and Dan Buckley and 20 advanced students spent six weeks on Cape Cod collecting, isolating and identifying novel microbes. (Sept. 9, 2009)
A week of events starting Sept. 26 will mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Open Doors, Open Hearts and Open Minds statement on diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness at Cornell.
In an interview April 26, Hunter R. Rawlings III, Cornell president emeritus and professor emeritus of classics, discussed "pinch-hitting" as interim president and some of the challenges ahead for Cornell and higher education.
Students will have the opportunity to learn from two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large: cultural critic Rebecca Solnit and conservationist Jeffrey McNeely, who were appointed to six-year terms. (Sept. 8, 2009)
Soumitra Dutta, a professor of business and technology and founder and faculty director of a new-media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, will become the 11th dean of Johnson July 1. (Jan. 9, 2012)