Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)
Walter R. Lynn, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering and of science and technology studies, died June 6 of cancer. He was 82. (June 9, 2011)
While overseeing the second-largest college at Cornell for 10 years, Henry focused CALS activities on the land-grant mission, the applied social sciences, the environmental sciences and the new life sciences.
Biophysicist Michelle Wang is the first researcher on Cornell's Ithaca campus to be named an HHMI Investigator, an award that recognizes innovative and promising researchers in the biomedical sciences. (May 28, 2008)
Several Cornell students are spearheading a project that has planted some 15,000 square feet of bamboo nursery in Haiti for fuel, housing, crafts and environmental restoration. (June 3, 2011)
The Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology has hired four outstanding young researchers, according to the institute's director, Scott Emr. They are: Chris Fromme, Yuxin Mao, Marcus Smolka and Fenghua Hu. (May 15, 2008)
Charles Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and development, announced a bevy of changes in his division following the announced departure of two senior leaders, Patricia Watson and Chris Marshall. (Nov. 1, 2012)
Some 3,000 copies of a new handbook to help employees recognize and respond to student stress are being distributed to all staff members who have contact with students. (May 19, 2011)