With a $10 million gift from John A. Swanson ’62 M.Eng. ’63 the College of Engineering will expand undergraduate opportunities in both academics and student organizations.

As more and more college students — spending hours bouncing Facebook chats and messages off each other — interact with others online, Rob Fishman ’08 has recently developed a Facebook application, Yoke, that pairs users with potential dates based on the compatibility of their Facebook profiles.

Wilson Greatbatch ’50, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker,  died Wednesday night in Buffalo, N.Y., at the age of 92.

Federal agents charged Matthew Kluger ’84 with securities fraud and money laundering Wednesday, accusing the lawyer and former School of Hotel Administration student of insider trading for the past 17 years.

James Nowak '73 had a long career as an educator and peace promoter.

Dr. Cameron Munter '76 was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the new U.S. ambassador to Pakistan.

Cornell’s alumni comprise a long list of television personalities. From Carl Sagan and Spencer Wells to Bill Nye, these personalities transformed modern scientific knowledge into entertaining, informative television. The newest member in this group finds himself answering life’s greatest questions.

Few Cornellians sit in class and pass the time before their professors begin lecturing by reading The Economist. Fewer reach for each weekly edition at the Cornell Store and think, “I could learn a lot about this cover, a lot about geopolitics and energy.” But this is exactly what Chief Energy Economist for Deutsche Bank, Adam E. Sieminski ’71, does. Yesterday, Sieminski came back to his alma mater to give a lecture co-sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, titled “What We Can Learn About Energy and Geopolitics from the Cover of The Economist Magazine.”

Eleven percent of the class of 2009 applied for positions at Teach for America, a non-profit organization in which students teach for two years in underperforming, low-income school districts. Washington, D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee ’92 gave a lecture last night in a crowded Bailey Hall about the challenges of managing a public school district — and one that was “the most troubled public school district in the country” when she took office in 2007.