Cornell has granted temporary space for an Asian and Asian American center. The administration also has named Patricia Nguyen associate dean and center director, starting April 20. (March 5, 2009)
On Sept. 17 in San Francisco, artist Maya Lin unveiled the first component of her serial art installation on species loss, which uses sounds and videos from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (Sept. 17, 2009)
Designed to develop tomorrow's leaders for the business world, the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell's Johnson School is celebrating its 10th anniversary. (Dec. 10, 2007)
The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Scarcely a week later, 575 Cornell male undergraduates registered for military service, the university began a flight ground school soon after and women played lead roles in the war effort.
It doesn't take much imagination to see that preventing falls, brightening dark and depressing spaces, and generally making environments habitable can be among the most important elements for improving the health of the elderly.
Howard Evans is going on 85, but beneath the veneer of age lurks a bright, adventurous boy who spent his early years looking under rocks and catching bugs and frogs in New York City's Central Park.
Enabling excellent teachers to remain in the classroom beyond retirement -- and allowing them to devote their talents to teaching undergraduates -- is a major challenge for universities today. Thanks to the generosity of two of its alumni, Andrew H. Tisch '71 and James S. Tisch '75, Cornell University is prepared to meet that challenge. The Tisch brothers have established a unique, distinguished professorship at Cornell that honors excellence in teaching and extends the undergraduate teaching role beyond retirement. (April 10, 2002)
Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.
A moderate drought has been declared for the area from the Finger Lakes region to Buffalo, N.Y., down to north-central Pennsylvania, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.