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
Steve Kresovich
Life Sciences
Steve Kresovich seeks to improve sub-Saharan staples by focusing on crops' African centers of origin.
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
- Andrew Clark is first Meinig Family Investigator
- Jan. 15
- Hutchens is new head of Cornell in Washington
- Dec. 18
- Trochim gets $2.3M to evaluate science education
- Dec. 5
- Astrophysicist Salpeter dies at 83
- Nov. 26
- Zalaznick Teaching Assistantships awarded
- Nov. 25
- Ober named interim dean of engineering
- Nov. 13
- Einaudi Center funds four faculty grant proposals
- Nov. 10
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.
More new faculty 