About 150 faculty members, and Interim President Hunter Rawlings, attended a Jan. 23 forum to discuss curriculum reforms in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Three student fellows recently joined the staff of Blackstone LaunchPad and are already offering innovative programming for entrepreneurial Cornell students.
Steven Osofsky, professor of wildlife health and health policy at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, comments on an upcoming United Nations report which is expected to say that up to 1 million species face extinction as a result of human activity.
Students in Tom Whitlow’s Restoration Ecology class spent the fall semester examining Lake Treman’s many components, and they worked with the New York State Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a plan for managing it.
Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
A study of the size, duration and actors involved in more than 100,000 conflicts suggests a model that can make quantitative predictions about the structure of war on large scales.
More than three dozen retiring faculty members – including emeritus professors, senior lecturers, senior research associates and librarians – were honored May 5 at a reception at the A.D. White House.
Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will deliver the 2015 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Feb. 25.
Events this week include Cornell Orchards' Apple Spectacular, a student-made film reflecting on service in Thailand; the Cornell Orchestras playing jazz with special guests; MFA students reading poetry and fiction; and lectures on law and technology, global child welfare and the Middle East.
