Klarman Hall —  a 33,250-square-foot building that will be adjacent to Goldwin Smith Hall — will provide "much needed space for the increase in the college’s humanities faculty ... as well as the overall expansion of the humanities at Cornell in the last hundred years,” an arts college official said.

As Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to step down in June, the pool of candidates to fill his position has been narrowed down to four individuals, according to Simeon Moss ’73, deputy University spokesperson. All four candidates have a Cornell connection: One is a Cornell faculty member, two are Cornell alumni and one is both a Cornell faculty member and an alumnus.

Through a new five-year partnership between the College of Arts and Sciences and The Posse Foundation, 10 “extraordinary Posse scholars” from urban public high schools in Chicago, Ill., will join the Class of 2017 at Cornell next fall.

Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, announced last week that he will step down when his term ends on June 30, 2013.

Prof. Gerard Aching, Romance studies, will be the Africana center's next director, according to an email sent Tuesday obtained by The Sun.

Two Cornell students in the College of Arts and Sciences were recently awarded prestigious scholarships for graduate study, according to a University press release.

Cornell’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — an academic honor society that annually inducts students with GPAs in the top 10 percent of the senior class and the top three percent of the junior class –– initiated their new members at a ceremony Thursday.

Over the last year, five departments  added a total of six new minors, bringing the total number of minors offered by the College of Arts and Sciences to 42. The new minors, in classics, classical civilization, mathematics, history, physics and anthropology will provide more opportunities for students to expand their education, Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences said.

Due in part to low enrollment numbers, the College of Arts and Sciences will cease to fund the Modern Greek program.

Recent declarations from two national Africana organizations may bolster the opposition to the proposed transfer of the Africana Studies and Research Center to the College of Arts and Sciences, announced by the administration Dec. 1.