The Office of Alumni Affairs sent more than 750 students, staff and alumni to the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend.

To recognize their contributions to literature, the New York State Writers Hall of Fame will induct Kurt Vonnegut ’44 and Toni Morrison M.A. ’55 this July, the organization announced on Jan. 11.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after being shot in the head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords M.A. ’96 (D-Ariz.) is on a mission to return to the job she so clearly loved.

Harvey Stenger Jr. ’79 will be the next president of Binghamton University, the SUNY Board of Trustees announced Nov. 23.

When Michael Dijamco ’15 moved into room 120 in Risley Hall this August, he tacked his Smallville poster of Superman near the door. Little did he know, Christopher Reeve ’74 — who played the original Superman — occupied that very room his senior year at Cornell.

Amy Friedlander ’87 was found dead in her Westchester home Tuesday afternoon along with her husband and two children, in what police say was a murder-suicide.

Cornell Alumni Magazine will no longer run full-length obituaries after alumni die.

On Saturday, Bill Nye ’77 gave a lecture and dedicated a new solar clock, embedded in the facade of Frank T. Rhodes Hall. The Sun had the opportunity to speak with Nye about his experiences at Cornell and beyond.

ILR alumnus Alan Krueger '83 is nominated to become President Barack Obama's new Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.