Global Grand Challenges Symposium brought together faculty, administrators and guests to discuss challenges on which Cornell should place emphasis and resources in 2019-2020.
Chris VanDruff, control technician and plumber for the Refrigeration Shop in Facilities Services, will bike a 100-mile ride to benefit Tour de Cure, a nationwide fundraiser for diabetes.
David Soderlund of Cornell's NYS Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has received the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals from the Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society. (Aug. 21, 2008)
Cornell has been tapped as one of five Sun Grant Centers of Excellence - regional hubs that will solicit and fund proposals that focus on using renewable agricultural resources to produce heat, electricity and fuel, natural products, such as biopesticides and bioherbicides, and industrial chemicals.
The Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell has joined the prestigious National Textile Center Consortium, a group of universities focused on research to sharpen the global competitiveness of the domestic textile and apparel industry.
Steven Strogatz presented the talk, Doing Math in Public: From the Columns of The New York Times to 'The Calculus of Friendship,' as part of the Conversations at Keeton discussion series. (Feb. 14, 2011)
Lisa Staiano-Coico, executive director of the Tri-Institutional Research Program (TIRP) and vice provost for medical affairs at Cornell University, has been selected as dean of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell. Since 2003, Staiano-Coico's work as executive director of the New York-based TIRP has put her at the helm of an alliance encompassing New York City's Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as Cornell's main campus in Ithaca. Established in 2000 with a $160 million gift, TIRP's collaborative research is focused in three areas -- chemical biology, computational biology, and cancer and developmental biology -- with tri-institutional graduate training programs offered in chemical biology, computational biology and medicine. (May 06, 2004)
As the first class of doctors is set to graduate from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the triple mission of the institution is ready to proceed, with the research aspect being added now, and patient care set to follow in 2011. (Feb. 5, 2008)
Artist and Cornell staffer Karen Brummund is inviting public participation in her latest installation, a full-scale drawing of a barn in Groton. (June 9, 2008)
It's not a shortage of fuel that is pushing the price of gas toward $3 per gallon again in New York, but U.S. public policy, said John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, speaking on campus April 11. (April 17, 2007)
Events on campus this week include First-Year Parents' Weekend, an exhibition of wearable art designed by students, alumni talks on imagination and biography, and animated films by Hayao Miyazaki. (Oct. 18, 2012)