Cornell Junior Bryan J. Lowrance, a Presidential Research Scholar and College Scholar majoring in English and classics, has been named one of 18 Beinecke Scholarship winners nationwide for 2005.
This summer, two Cornell undergraduates will hand out free laptops to 100 elementary schoolchildren in the rural city of Tidjikja, Mauritania, in northwest Africa, thanks to a $30,000 grant. (May 12, 2009)
Higher education can be a vehicle for change in the Middle East, President David Skorton and his wife, Professor Robin Davisson, wrote in recent blog from Israel. (July 23, 2010)
Students and young alumni came out in force for the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference, the Office of Alumni Affairs' flagship volunteer event, Jan. 28-30 in Washington, D.C. (Jan. 31, 2011)
Thirteen Cornell faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 531 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Bolivian writer Jose Edmundo Paz-Soldan, a professor of Hispanic literature in the Department of Romance Studies, is helping young and emerging Latino and Latin American writers at Cornell. (Jan. 16, 2012)
Events on campus this week include an exhibit on early Cornell women scientists, the first Bound for Glory and Department of Music concerts of the season, the start of salsa lessons and a lecture on race and crime.
Judith Appleton, Krystal Bruyer, Keesha Hayes, Melissa Thomas-Hunt and Judy Virgilio are the recipients of the 2009 Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition Awards, which were presented April 23.
Harris Rosen '61, president and chief operating officer of Rosen Hotels and Resorts Inc. and founder of a free education program, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. (Jan. 20, 2011)
As the new house professor-dean of Becker House, associate professor of history Ed Baptist will emphasize listening to students and sparking their intellectual curiosity outside the classroom.