Lewis C. Cantley and Kristy Richards are growing radically collaborative research connections between Weill Cornell Medicine and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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)
Events on campus this week include a discussion of women and equality; Asia Night; professor Harry Greene on field biology; "Wonder Women" author Debora Spar and baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare.
More than 12,000 Cornell fans rooted for Big Red hockey at Madison Square Garden Nov. 28, when the team took on Boston University. The game ended in overtime with a tie of 3-3. (Nov. 30, 2009)
Events this week include classic and contemporary Indian films, a New York state food summit, fiction and poetry read by creative writing alumni, and historian Richard Polenberg's musical book launch.
Winners in Cornell's seventh annual Book Collection Contest include the owners of a book collection about interpretations of the Hebrew Bible and of a collection of Mark Strand publications.
Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., located on the Cornell campus, will lecture in Marseille, France, Nov. 16, on how plant chemicals change the taste sensation for insects.
Cornell's agricultural sciences major has received a $1 million gift from Richard C. Call, CALS '52, and his wife, Marie, to establish the Richard C. Call Directorship of Agricultural Sciences. (Dec. 14, 2010)