Preservationist Jeff Morgan '84 wants to make postwar Iraq as popular a destination for tourists visiting ancient sites as Peru's Machu Picchu – which attracts 1,500 people a day and brings in millions of dollars in revenues.
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)
Cornell's Women's Studies Program and the Program on Gender and Global Change are sponsoring a four-day conference, "Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution," April 2 to 5 on campus and in the community.
During his annual address April 18 to representatives of local service clubs and the university, President David Skorton enumerated the ways in which Cornell takes its public service role seriously. (April 19, 2012)
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.
Alumnus Doug Usher, a professional pollster, discussed the upcoming election and noted that the eventual victor will have to win Colorado, Ohio and Virginia. (Oct. 19, 2012)
Gordon Franklin Streib, professor emeritus of sociology and an internationally known scholar of retirement housing who taught at Cornell, died Feb. 17 at the age of 92. (March 2, 2011)