Laura Spitz, associate dean for international affairs at Cornell Law School, has been appointed interim vice provost for international affairs, as Fredrik Logevall prepares to step down.
A Weill Cornell Medicine study published Dec. 7 represents the first time scientists have captured the restoration of communication of a minimally conscious patient by measuring aspects of brain structure and function.
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)
Looking energetic and vigorous at 73, Peter Eisenman '54, B.Arch. '55, addressed why 'Architecture Matters' to a full house in Kennedy Hall's Call auditorium.
Walter LaFeber is a historian who relishes being one of the "old school" types with a sense of humor, a warmth and wisdom grounded in the fundamentals that come from cultivating a long view, whether it be in foreign relations history or baseball. And oh my, are we going to miss him.
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)
Trey Graham, theater critic at the Washington City Paper, is the winner of the 2003-04 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, is administered by the Cornell University Department of English and is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater. Graham was selected by a committee consisting of the chairs of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale universities, assisted by experts on the theater from those universities. The Nathan committee citation reads: "For Trey Graham, the play's the thing. In reviewing classical and contemporary work produced in the Greater Washington D.C. area, he brings a fresh eye both to things we think we know and to things newly-minted. He writes with sensitivity and flair about the individual masterworks of the British and American canon, but he's especially adept at linking these and other works from the past with the best the present has to offer." (December 20, 2004)
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.
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)