Faculty offered tips to other faculty on how to keep students engaged in large lecture courses in a panel discussion Sept. 10. Some strategies: keep moving, summarize and show you care. (Sept. 15, 2009)
VPSI Inc., the national leader in commuter vanpool companies, is working with TCAT,Cornell and others to offer a complement to traditional transit service to Tompkins County. (Sept. 15, 2009)
To help first-year students who are Muslims adjust to campus life - right in the middle of Ramadan - Professor Shawka Toorawa planned events throughout the month, including an Iftaar meal Sept. 13. (Sept. 15, 2009)
Nearly $19 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is supporting the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell Electron Storage Ring and the planned Energy Recovery Linac. (Sept. 14, 2009)
Now students can major in environmental engineering and graduate with an accredited degree in that field, which also qualifies them to sit for the Fundamentals of Engineering examination. (Sept. 14, 2009)
Cornell received a set of 13 new college banners as a gift from the Cornell alumni of the Sigma Phi Society, Sept. 11. The banners hang from the ceiling of Willard Straight Hall's Memorial Room. (Sept. 14, 2009)
Such working conditions as irregular work schedules, long hours and job dissatisfaction of parents in low-income families significantly impact family food choices, reports a new Cornell study. (Sept. 14, 2009)
Cindy van Es, senior lecturer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is one of five faculty members in the nation to receive one of the new Inclusive Excellence Awards from Ernst & Young LLP. (Sept. 14, 2009)
Cornell hockey star and Canadian politician Ken Dryden '69 joined former athlete, U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, Sept. 10 to discuss sports, service and leadership with ESPN host Jeremy Schaap '91. (Sept. 14, 2009)
With flu kits and meals delivered to their rooms and daily check-ins via e-mail and phone, Cornell students ill with the flu are getting support from staff and fellow students. (Sept. 12, 2009)
Forty-seven students minoring in Cornell's new Global Health Program spent the summer in various low-resource countries doing volunteer work and research as part of the requirements for their minor. (Sept. 11, 2009)