With the double attraction of men's and women's basketball against Columbia University Jan. 16, faculty, staff, retirees and their families enjoyed food, skating and bowling at the community dinner.
Maria Cristina Garcia and alumnae Renee Alexander '74, Mary Berens '74 and Kristen Rupert '74 were elected honorary members of Sphinx Head recently for service to Cornell. (May 4, 2010)
Sana Krasikov '01 has won the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, worth $100,000, for her debut short story collection, 'One More Year.' (June 5, 2009)
On Sept. 10 close to 100 Cornell alumni, family and friends filled the Cornell Club to give the smallest victims of Hurricane Katrina a little something to hearten their spirits.
Cornell student Douglas Lowe, Class of 2011, age 18, of Shelton, Conn., drowned June 12 in the turbulent waters of the Fall Creek Gorge. (June 13, 2008)
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)
Cornell has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, With Distinction for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement. (March 15, 2012)
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.
The Organic Crops and Soils Field Day 2002 will be held at the farm belonging to Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens in Penn Yan, N.Y., on Wednesday, Aug. 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Visitors can tour one of the Northeast region's largest organic farms. The Martens grow 1,300 acres of organic grain along with processing vegetables on the western slope of Seneca Lake. The Martens and their neighbors will share expertise on how they grow nearly 8,000 acres worth of certified organic products. They also will explain how they began a value-added feed mill and seed-cleaning business. (July 18, 2002)