The committee for the 2002 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 12.
Six Cornell professors shed some light on the reality of social behavior during 'A Meeting of the Minds: Decoding Our Decisions' at the Big Red by the Bay event March 18 in San Francisco. (March 24, 2010)
Several Cornell Library donors talked about the thrill of building specialized collections at a Cornell Library Salon March 16 at the Grolier Club in New York City. (March 22, 2010)
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
A disturbingly different American landscape is on the horizon if immigration reform in Congress can’t provide enough legal workers, agribusiness panelists predicted Dec. 10 at Cornell.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)
Rachel Bean, Peter Diamessis, Matthias Liepe, Anders Ryd and Kyle Shen have received National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards to fund specific research projects. (Aug. 27, 2009)
Biophysicist Michelle Wang is the first researcher on Cornell's Ithaca campus to be named an HHMI Investigator, an award that recognizes innovative and promising researchers in the biomedical sciences. (May 28, 2008)
Assistant professor of computer science Ashutosh Saxena leads Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab, which develops software for complex, high-level robotics that could one day aid humans with daily tasks. (Sept. 21, 2010)
Bill Nye, TV's popular advocate for science education, returns to Cornell on April 3-12 in his role as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor. He will deliver a public lecture April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.