Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS).
He was among 49 members selected this year by APS, the oldest learned…
Professor emeritus Jack Squier and his wife, Jane, will be guests of honor at the June 9 premier of 'Simply Squier,' a documentary about Squier's life, work and nearly 50-year relationship with Cornell. (May 30, 2007)
Ratan N. Tata '59, B.Arch. '62, chairman of Tata Sons, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2013. He will be honored Oct. 12 at the first Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit in New York City. (Aug. 22, 2012)
As Cornell embarks upon strategic planning to take it to 2012 and beyond, Alumni Affairs and Development, the division responsible for the university's $4 billion capital campaign, is transforming the way it does business. (March 23, 2009)
At the Conference on the Histories of Capitalism on campus Nov. 7, Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said the U.S. is devolving into a plutocracy due to disengaged voters.
Local and campus leaders met Nov. 14 to recognize town-gown partnerships and celebrate the "long history of cooperation for mutual benefit" that the university, city and county have enjoyed.
Lester Eastman, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, died Aug. 9 at age 85. Calling hours will be Aug. 15, and a celebration of his life will be Aug. 16.
President Pollack and more than 1,000 alumni gathered Nov. 18 at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of African American History to celebrate Cornell’s founding principles of inclusion and diversity.
Cornell University officials, alerted by reports of animal rumblings in Rand Hall, have issued a dragon-warning and road-closure alert for the campus on Thursday, March 14. Vehicular access to central campus will be restricted from 1 p.m. to approximately 3:30 p.m., and buses could be rerouted or delayed for the annual emergence of the dragon. This year is the 101st Dragon Day, in which first-year students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning build and parade a dragon through campus. (March 12, 2002)
Assistant professor Michael Goldstein has received a $352,000 National Science Foundation grant over the next three years to learn more about how infants learn to talk. (May 6, 2009)