Steven Ames, a private investor in New York and a longtime supporter of Cornell University's art scene, has been named chair of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Advisory Council. The appointment was made by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings.
MEDEX Global Solutions, a 24-hour travel emergency service, will protect Cornell travelers beginning March 18. It also provides medical assistance, medical and political evacuation and more. (March 10, 2011)
A herpetologist and a political scientist have won Luce scholarships to study in Asia for a year. The Luce Scholars Program began in 1974 to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders. (March 10, 2011)
Junior Dorian Bandy, a College Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences, recruited performers and supporters on campus and from across America and Europe to stage a historical version of 'Don Giovanni' Nov. 14-16. (Nov. 18, 2008)
Whether or not Vladimir Putin gains Crimea, he’s effectively lost the Ukraine, panelists agreed March 14 at the campus event, “Ukraine, Putin and the New Cold War,” at which Julia Ioffe, a senior editor at The New Republic, gave a keynote address.
Researchers have made a breakthrough in nonvolatile memory and instant-on computing with a working, room-temperature memory device that switches with an electric field.
Doors on the Cornell campus lead to classrooms and dorms, stadiums, museums and libraries. They also symbolize access, to opportunities and experiences. Here's a photographic look at just a few dozen of them. (June 4, 2009)
Ushari Khalil is on campus this year to lecture and write about his advocacy on behalf of children and displaced populations in Sudan -- work that has put him at risk there. (April 14, 2009)