Robert S. Hatfield, Class of 1937, died March 14 in Greenwich, Conn., where he had lived for many years and Jansen Noyes Jr., Class of 1939 (mechanical engineering) and 11th chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees, died March 16.
In the new book called 'Interest,' Cornell sociologist Richard Swedberg traces the intellectual history of the concept of interest and argues that how economists have used the concept is too narrow a view.
The two-day sesquicentennial event, “Vietnam: The War at Cornell," Nov. 10-11, brought former students, faculty and staff back to campus to discuss Cornell in the late 1960s.
New marriage-promotion welfare rules proposed by the Bush administration will violate poor women's privacy rights and will not work, says a position paper written by three academics associated with Cornell University. The rules are expected to be reintroduced in the House of Representatives next week as part of the welfare bill, and brought to a vote as early as Tuesday, Feb. 11. (February 7, 2003)
In the pilot program, two Cornell researchers are training an environmental volunteer corps of retirees with the skills critically needed to tackle environmental threats. (Nov. 13, 2008)
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings announced today (July 31) that he has accepted a letter of resignation from the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Philip E. Lewis, effective June 30, 2003.
Construction has begun on a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Lab that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into ethanol thanks to a $10 million grant awarded to Professor Larry Walker. (March 6, 2008)
As the world population passes the 6 billion mark, pioneering work to guarantee food sustainability continues at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. the largest not-for-profit organization dedicated to plant research in the world, celebrates its 75th anniversary.
For the second year in a row, all four of Cornell Universities nominees to the national competition for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship have won the prestigious award.