Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Deputy Provost John Siliciano will co-chair the search committee for the next Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean of Cornell Tech. The committee will begin meeting immediately to develop a position announcement.
Kent Kleinman, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean, beginning July 1, 2013.
Events on campus this week include alumni art exhibitions, a lecture on the history and nature of personally transformative objects, and stargazing at Fuertes Observatory.
Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has designed a pavilion for Nike in New York City using photo-luminescent, solar-active and reflective threads, inspired by the company's new footwear. (Sept. 20, 2012)
A collaboration between researchers from Cornell, Northwestern University and University of Virgina combined complementary imaging techniques to explore the atomic structure of human enamel, exposing tiny chemical flaws in the fundamental building blocks of our teeth.
Students in a landscape architecture class submitted an unusual plan for the Ithaca Inlet that has inspired the director of planning and economic development for the city of Ithaca.
Architect Rem Koolhaas toured the recently completed Milstein Hall Oct. 20 with members of his firm, OMA, and gave a public lecture in Bailey Hall on trends in modern architecture. (Oct. 21, 2011)
Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” on Oct. 21 delivered the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’ annual Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences.
Events on campus this week include a talk by environmental writer Dan Fagin, a young people's concert with Cornell Symphony Orchestra, and a debate on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.