A $4.9 million grant has enabled the creation of a nonprofit organization, named Fedora Commons, to further develop and promote advanced digital repository software created at Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Cornell librarians have spruced up and expanded the online DSpace repository, renaming it eCommons@Cornell, and they are calling on researchers and scholars to add content. (Aug. 30, 2007)
DigitalCommons@ILR is a worldwide bulletin board for the research and scholarship of the ILR School, managed by the Martin P. Catherwood Library. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar held its second annual photography contest earlier this year, awarding prizes in several categories. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Cornell greenhouses contain plants for teaching, research and public viewing. With 163 complexes, Cornell now has the largest noncommercial greenhouse operation in New York state. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Professor Eswar Prasad writes a Cornell Perspectives piece on how he became a more visible advocate for economic policies by jumping from the IMF to Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)
In a letter to the editor, Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen says the university's legendary motto, 'Any person ... any study,' was certainly penned by Ezra Cornell. (Aug. 30, 2007)
Ezra Cornell demonstrated his belief in practical higher education for women by enrolling his daughter, Mary Emily, at the newly founded Vassar College in 1866. (Aug. 30, 2007)
All members of the Cornell community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni and Cornell groups and organizations, are invited to submit nminations for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professorship. (Aug. 30, 2007)
I wonder if we should accept without question George S. Batchellor's comment, quoted by George Lowery, "A Great Seal, a Timeless Maxim," Cornell Chronicle, Aug. 24, 2007, that Andrew Dickson White "traced the present motto" of…
In studying how neurotransmitters travel between cells, Cornell researchers have discovered that an electrical current thought to be present during that process does not, in fact, exist. (Aug. 29, 2007)
Teens from New York City low-income neighborhoods participated in 'Island Explorers,' a Cornell outdoor adventure and environmental education program, on historic Governors Island in New York Harbor. (Aug. 29, 2007)
