Campaigns are not just about raising a lot of money -- they are about raising a lot of money for specific academic priorities. That is a major lesson learned from Cornell's last record-setting $1.5 billion campaign, 1990-95.
Over the next five years, Cornell needs to replace about one-quarter of its faculty. The second article in the Cornell Chronicle's Decade of Challenge series looks at the ways the administration is addressing this reality.
Cornell researcher will take part in a multi-institutional $5 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate how changes to an ecosystem can influence evolution in a fish species.
The Cassini spacecraft is giving astronomers a wealth of new information about Saturn and its ring system. It's also tossing in some surprises and questions along the way.
A project to share skills and knowledge with Hondurans for building drinking water treatment systems in rural areas has brought national recognition for Cornell engineering students and instructors.
Saturn presents an eerily beautiful face -- 57 million miles from Earth. Cornell astronomers and colleagues on NASA's Cassini mission presented the images at a recent conference.
Historian and activist Angela Davis' 2003 book 'Are Prisons Obsolete?' is the inaugural title of an annual reading project at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center.
Kevin McGovern '70, chairman and CEO of McGovern Capital and a founder or key shareholder in more than 15 companies, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2007. He will be honored on campus during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration.
A seemingly simple, sturdy, wood-veneer chair has become an online video hit. With its 'brain' in its seat, the chair collapses into a disheveled, disconnected heap; its legs then slowly find each corner of the base, connect back together and eventually, the chair stands upright.
Cornell University Library has signed a partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will add books published before 1923 to its online collections, making 'checking out' books even easier.
In 'Law and Order: Elizabethan Unit' Sept. 20, real actors and real attorneys played parts in the trial of King Lear v. Goneril and Regan, part of Weill Cornell's Humanities and Medicine Series.
