Hailed by his peers as a scientific pioneer, Prof. Emeritus Robert Kaul Finn ’41, chemical and biomolecular engineering, died on Nov. 3 at the age of 92.
After years as an involved community member, Ithaca Town Board member Nahmin Horwitz, 84, died on Oct. 17. Horwitz, a retired physics professor who taught at Syracuse University, served for two years on several of the board’s committees.
Research recently conducted by Prof. Richard Burkhauser, policy analysis and management, is changing national conversations about inequality and the growth of the middle class, Cornell professors said.
Despite a wave of scandals and financial instability in a tumultuous print industry, The New York Times stands out among newspapers today, a Cornell professor argues in a new book.
Following two years of relative stagnation, the average full-time faculty salary at Cornell increased 2.8 percent from the 2009-2010 to the 2010-2011 academic years.