Highlights from Announcements 10/9/18
Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, whose invention of “optical tweezers” realized his own science fiction dream of being able to move objects…
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De-emphasize GREs, look broadly for new Ph.D. students: expert
By Katya Hrichak Revised 10/10/18 Keivan Stassun, professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University, shared lessons learned from transforming admissions processes to overcome barriers to diversifying graduate fields in…
Graduate Students Selected as 2018 Forbes Under 30 Scholars Attend the Summit in Boston, MA
By Alexandria Maloney This year a number of current and alumni Cornell graduate students were selected as Forbes Scholars to attend the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston, MA from…
Highlights from Announcements 10/1/18
Students Recognized at Second Annual Dean’s Scholars Pinning Ceremony The Graduate School Dean’s Scholars Pinning Ceremony might have celebrated its inaugural year in 2017, but the 2018 ceremony was not…
Students recognized at second annual Dean’s Scholars Pinning Ceremony
By Katya Hrichak The Graduate School Dean’s Scholars Pinning Ceremony might have celebrated its inaugural year in 2017, but the 2018 ceremony was not without its firsts. The Pinning Ceremony…
Highlights from Announcements 9/24/18
Student Family Fall Bash Twenty-five student families gathered at the Cornell Child Care Center to participate in the Fall Bash September 20. To view more photos from this event, see…
Fall Bash 2018
Twenty-five student families gathered at the Cornell Child Care Center to participate in the Fall Bash September 20. During the second hour of the program, Cornell Child Care Center teachers…
Postdocs Honored with Achievement Awards
By Katya Hrichak This story also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle. Six postdocs at Cornell were honored with an inaugural Postdoc Achievement Award Sept. 17 at the Big Red Barn…
Big Red Barn Fellows bring events, sense of community to campus
By Sally Kral On a Saturday evening in late spring at the Big Red Barn (BRB), graduate students and other members of the Cornell community came together for a performance…
Donating Time, Developing Community
By Katya Hrichak What does it take to orient 1,600 incoming graduate and professional students? Eleven-hundred red bags, thirteen-hundred cups of coffee, and a team of 80 student and staff…