Layered paint and propaganda: Mellon seminar visits Cuba

Students in a Mellon collaborative studies seminar in architecture, urbanism and the humanities spent eight days in Cuba this semester to study the island's changing politics and environment.

Fall Hans Bethe Lecture to focus on 'spooky action'

Physicist Anton Zeilinger will explore how quantum entanglement has been applied to cryptography, teleportation and even communication satellites Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall.

Cornell sustains presidential ties to Univ. of Michigan

With the selection of Martha E. Pollack as Cornell’s 14th president, the university has chosen five of its last six leaders from Big Ten schools.

On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, Big Red Band stops traffic

In New York City Nov. 12, a wave of chants, horns, sirens and signs, along with the Big Red Band, marked the 22nd Sy Katz '31 Parade down Fifth Avenue.

President-elect praises Cornell's 'spirit of innovation'

President-elect Martha E. Pollack received a Big Red welcome, complete with a standing ovation, from deans, staff, faculty, trustees, alumni, students and staff at a luncheon Nov. 14 at the Statler Hotel.

Pollack brings values of integrity, diversity to role as president

In 2009, then-Michigan professor Martha E. Pollack gave the Salton Lecture to the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell. On April 17, 2017, she will become the university's 14th president.

Search chair: Pollack ideal to realize vision of 'One Cornell'

Members of the Presidential Search Committee began with a list of more than 300 candidates, said Jan Rock Zubrow '77, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chair of the search committee.

Martha E. Pollack, provost at Michigan, named 14th president

Martha E. Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, was elected Cornell's 14th president. She will assume the presidency April 17, 2017.

Political scientist Adam Levine recaps presidential election

Adam Levine spoke to a standing-room only crowd in McGraw Hall Nov. 10 as faculty and students joined his American Political Campaigns class for a 2016 election recap.