Office of the Provost
Maintaining and enhancing the university's excellence in teaching, research, scholarship and outreach.
Faculty Highlights
Our faculty have garnered more than their share of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, MacArthur "genius" awards, Guggenheims, National Medals of Science, and elections to prestigious national academies in science, engineering, and the arts. Cornell faculty members write the books others read, create knowledge in their fields, and even help define the fields themselves.
In the Spotlight
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
English
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been received acclaim for her poetry collection 'Open Interval.'
Lisa Nishii
Human Resources
Negotiating cultural differences is something she has had to do from birth.
Harry Greene
Biology
More than 40 years of snake hunting have taken Harry Greene to 18 countries on six continents.
Awards and Recognition
- Cornell honors top seniors as Merrill scholars
- May. 24
- Business, politics, economics play key roles in sustainability
- May. 22
- Chris Schaffer to work on science policy in D.C.
- May. 16
- Miller, Wiedmann elected fellows of global group
- May. 15
- Graduate students honor outstanding mentors
- May. 9
- Peers praise faculty authors McClane and McCoy
- May. 3
- Clark elected to National Academy of Sciences
- May. 2
Introducing new members of the faculty
Kyle Shen
Arts and Sciences
As as an assistant professor of physics, he uses spectroscopic techniques to study quantum interactions in superconductors.
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