It is not too early to register for the Third Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration, slated for April 10-11 on the Cornell campus. (Feb. 18, 2008)
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's $124.3 billion executive budget proposal provides renewed support to higher education in New York, says Ronald Seeber, Cornell vice provost for land grant affairs. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Denying visas to scholars who want to visit the U.S., especially when the denial is political rather than security-related, was discussed at the Feb. 5 meeting of the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, which includes President David Skorton. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Whether the European Union or Asia will reign as the global regional power was a focus of a panel discussion to celebrate a new Cornell student journal, the Cornell International Affairs Review. (Feb. 15, 2008)
Harold Tanner '52 supports programming for students on West Campus, naming the house fellow program for Hunter Rawlings, who spearheaded the residential initiative. (Feb. 14, 2008)
Ray J. Wu, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, who developed the first method for sequencing DNA and some of the fundamental tools for DNA cloning, died at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca Feb. 10.
Faculty members, researchers and facility managers in charge of campus spaces that use or store chemicals must fill out an online inventory to ensure Cornell's compliance with anti-terrorism standards. (Feb. 14, 2008)
Cornell will partner with the Columbia University Center for Advanced Information Management to help six promising technologies get a boost toward commercialization at a March workshop in NYC. (Feb. 14, 2008)
The undergraduate Student Assembly unanimously approved a resolution commending the university's 'commitment in providing students an affordable education.' (Feb. 14, 2008)
John Leggett, of Canterbury, N.H., received an Excellence in Integrated Pest Management Award from the New York State IPM Program at Cornell for development of automated weather instruments.