A student organization called the Cornell Computer Reuse Club and some staff members refurbish Cornell computers and donate them to schools in Zambia, Togo and Jamaica, and even to Tompkins County-area organizations.
About 270 undergraduates, 60 master's degree candidates, 40 Ph.D. candidates and a lone Johnson School MBA candidate participated in the fourth annual midyear graduation ceremony, Dec. 16.
Having graduated from Cornell a semester early this week, Lisa Gilbertson will head back home, where she hopes to pursue a career in environmental conservation -- a career path she has long sought.
Katie Whalen transferred to Cornell as a sophomore from Villanova University, but soon found ways to fit in and take advantage of the many social and academic opportunities on the Ithaca campus.
In the hotel business, 60 percent of frontline workers and 25 percent of managers leave their jobs each year, costing employers a bundle, says a new study from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
RedRover-Secure, Cornell's newest wireless network service, offers a much greater degree of privacy during wireless transactions than ever before by using WiFi protected-access technology.
The Cornell Council for the Arts recently honored Maria Adelmann and Catherine Galasso for their academic and artistic achievements in creative writing, film and dance.
'The Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology,' edited by Cornell's Anthony Ong, explores research methods for studying hope, laughter, resilience and other aspects of positive psychology.
To prepare scholars who will contribute original research in human development and the law, and psychology and the law, Cornell will offer a new graduate concentration called Law, Psychology and Human Development, beginning next fall.
For the first time, more than 65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips of birds and other animals are accessible for no charge at the Macaulay Library's Web site.
A new book edited by Cornell professors of human development Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams explores the reasons why more women don't go into science or engineering.
Johnson School students applied complex financial concepts to a real-world situation, the MasterCard IPO, during the school's first-ever Integrative Case Competition on Dec. 10.
