As part of its mission to promote cross-campus interactions to enhance training in stem cell biology at Cornell, the Cornell Stem Cell Program held a daylong retreat May 17 on campus.
More Cornell undergraduates are graduating without loan debt, fewer have to borrow to pay their education expenses, and there is less debt overall among those who have borrowed.
Five employees – Sarah Miller, Joseph Abel, Lindsay Jones Hansen, William Gilligan and Dorothy Vanderbilt – were recognized with awards of excellence May 19 at the second annual Employee Recognition Luncheon.
Alan Collmer will direct the new School of Integrative Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The school will integrate five current departments.
Cornell Unmanned Air Systems, an undergraduate project team that designs, builds and programs completely autonomous planes, will defend its world championship title at the Student Unmanned Air Systems Competition.
Economics student Eric Krasnow ’15 wrote in Spanish about his Cornell Abroad experience in Spain for an essay contest, and will present his essay at a United Nations youth forum June 27 in New York City.
From conducting archaeological research in the Republic of Armenia to exploring how rumors spread through Twitter, the Institute for the Social Sciences' small grants program funded 22 faculty members' projects for the 2013-14 year.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education chose Human Ecology Dean Alan Mathios to fill a midterm vacancy through December 2014. In October it was announced he was appointed to his first official term to run Jan. 1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2017.
