The 2014 Geospatial In-Service workshop taught 4-H leaders about global positioning systems and other related tools, which participants plan to introduce to their New York counties.
Chuck Feeney ’56 received the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy June 17 during the third annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy at the New York Public Library.
Jesse Goldberg, assistant professor of neurobiology, received a four-year, $240,000 grant intended to help him investigate pressing global health problems.
Reuben A. Munday ’69, MPS ’74, and Cheryl Casselberry Munday ’72 have endowed a distinguished annual lectureship at Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center.
Francis Moon, the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus, has published his ninth book, "Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention."
Women’s sailing at Cornell has been elevated from club status to varsity team level, it was announced June 23. With infrastructure already in place, the Big Red will continue to compete on a similar schedule to that of the former club program beginning this fall.
The Cornell University police investigative unit was recognized with the Frank Hammer Kiwanis Officer of the Month Award June 16 for identifying and seeking out an unknown person who had left behind a despondent note Commencement Weekend.
Computer scientist David Steurer has been awarded a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship to support research to find the "laws of efficient computation," which might lead to a new way to solve many very hard problems.
