Cornell graduate Michael Schwam-Baird '02 has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he will pursue a master's degree in economic and social history. Schwam-Baird is a native of Jacksonville, Fla.
Unless the U.S. economy has a major downturn or New York state severely cuts funding, Cornell will not face significant downsizing, President David Skorton said Nov. 12 at his Annual Address to Staff. (Nov. 12, 2010)
Philanthropist and retired businessman Fred Young '64, M.Eng. '66, MBA '66, has committed $11 million to CCAT, a proposed 25-meter aperture telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.
Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, frequently returns to her childhood home, the Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona, to conduct cancer research and offer education. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Energy conservation and a new organizational structure will boost both savings and efficiency in the Division of Facilities Services, says VP Kyu-Jung Whang in a public forum. (Nov. 9, 2010)
Four years before its sesquicentennial, Cornell is poised to expand its reach, enhance its academic prowess and extend its leadership, President David Skorton said in his State of the University Address Oct. 21. (Oct. 21, 2011)
Cornell University is a state of mind, and both a beginning and a destination, much like the "Ithaka" of C.P. Cavafy's poem about Ulysses' journey home, said President Elizabeth Garrett at her inauguration as Cornell's 13th president.
Galen D. Stucky, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will present the Herbert H. Johnson Memorial Lectures on campus Nov. 6.
More than 900 people flocked to campus for Entrepreneurship@Cornell's Celebration 2010, April 15-16, to learn about and network for all things entrepreneurial. (April 22, 2010)