Elisabeth Stern '09 has been won the 2008 Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award from the Campus Compact for 'extraordinary commitment to improving local and global communities.' (June 17, 2008)
How can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible? It's a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways. (June 16, 2008)
Cornell student Douglas Lowe, Class of 2011, age 18, of Shelton, Conn., drowned June 12 in the turbulent waters of the Fall Creek Gorge. (June 13, 2008)
Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)
Irwin '54 and Joan Jacobs '54 and their son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs, are the recipients of this year's Tanner Prize for significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell.
East Avenue from University Avenue to Tower Road will close beginning 6 a.m., Monday, June 16, until 6 p.m., Saturday, June 21, to facilitate the physical sciences building construction project. (June 12, 2008)
David Harris, deputy provost and vice provost for the social sciences at Cornell, will present a discussion on poverty and inequality, 'Opportunity 101: What Affects Access,' June 18 in New York City. (June 12, 2008)
The early-career engineers at Lockheed Martin, also Cornell systems engineering master's students, broke the previous amateur altitude record by nearly 5,000 feet. (June 12, 2008)
Vivian Geller, director of Cornell's Internal Transfer Division for nearly 30 years, reflects on her career and on working closely with Cornell students. (June 12, 2008)
Why do employees leave? John Hausknecht, of the ILR School, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Harrah's Entertainment surveyed 2,500 hospitality employees to find out. (June 12, 2008)
