The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its meeting in New York City Saturday, approved a 1997-98 budget that calls for a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its meeting in New York City Saturday, Jan. 25, approved a 1997-98 budget that calls for a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
Cornell University alumni and longtime benefactors Robert J. and Helen H. Appel have committed $15 million to support the second phase of the university's Residential Initiative, a new living and learning environment for upper-level students on West Campus, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced recently. (February 14, 2002)
New York, NY (September 21, 2004) -- As you read this, billions of synapses lying between the cells of your brain are using complex chemical signals to pass information from one neuron to the next.It's a process crucial to healthy brain function as well as drug development, drug addiction and neurological disease, and researchers at Yale University School of Medicine-Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College believe they now have a better understanding of how synaptic transmission works.
Jeffrey S. Lehman will be inaugurated as president of Cornell University in ceremonies on three Cornell campuses around the globe, Oct. 12-16. The events will feature remarks and lectures by the Sheikha of Qatar, national AIDS research leader Anthony Fauci, prize-winning architect Richard Meier and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "Cornell Celebrates a New Beginning" is the theme of the inauguration, in which Lehman, 47, will challenge higher education to provide fresh leadership in areas that are critical to the well-being of all humanity. (September 30, 2003)
Dr. Arthur Garson laid out the topography of the health care debate, defining terms and dispelling a few myths along the way, in his keynote address kicking off the Sick in America series, April 20. (April 21, 2009)
A profile of John Tonello, a Cornell employee and a candidate for the New York State Senate seat representing the 53rd senatorial district. (Sept. 25, 2008)
Cornell engineering professor Thomas O'Rourke has been named to a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the adequacy of hurricane protection infrastructure in New Orleans. The committee will provide an independent review of the government's interagency investigation. (December 23, 2005)
A finding by a team of scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College opens the door to better understanding the amino acid taurine's impact on the brain. (Feb. 13, 2008)
The new structure of central university administration will streamline management and establish a more integrated team, with a projected savings of more than $2 million a year.