Celebrated restaurateur Drew Nieporent '77 has been named recipient of the 2011 Hospitality Innovator Award by the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship. (March 21, 2011)
The President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to Cornell's president, has awarded its 2002 research grants to seven women faculty members.
Professor Alice Colby-Hall of Cornell's Department of Romance Studies has been named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture.
Richard Baker '88, a classic American success story in real estate who gave $11 million to Cornell's Program in Real Estate earlier this year, spoke on campus Oct. 23. (Oct. 31, 2012)
On Aug. 21, students and faculty members gathered in Barton Hall on campus to discuss Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart,' the subject of Cornell's New Student Reading Project.
From the sun, a solution: Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have remodeled an energy intensive medical test – designed to detect a deadly skin cancer related to HIV infections – to create an quick diagnostic assay perfect for remote regions of the world.
Cornell has accepted the invitation to join an elite national organization that aims to produce better university teachers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. (Oct. 6, 2011)
Two Cornell graduate students have won awards that total $250,000 - one for instant, accurate testing of sore throats and another for a portable, low-power ultrasound device that promotes healing. (July 12, 2010)
Cornell University graduate student Lauren Alleyne won first place in the poetry category in The Atlantic Monthly's 2003 Student Writing Contest, and graduate student Pilar Gómez-Ibáñez won an honorable mention. Both Alleyne and Gómez-Ibáñez are first-year students in Cornell's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in creative writing. The prestigious Atlantic Monthly contest is open to full-time graduate and undergraduate students at American universities. More than 500 students entered the poetry category. (May 24, 2004)