This year's campus orientation, from Aug. 17 through 22, will introduce new students to the rhythms of life at Cornell through music-themed events. (Aug. 13, 2007)
The 2007 entering freshman class at Cornell will be a more selective group than ever, chosen from a record number of applications -- 30,383, up almost 20 percent from just two years ago. (Aug. 13, 2007)
Garden Mosaics, an interactive urban natural resources extension project available on DVD, has been recognized in the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment competition. (Aug. 13, 2007)
Jerry H. Cherney, New York state forage specialist and a leading researcher in grass bioenergy production, is the recipient of the 2007 Extension-Industry Award. (Aug. 13, 2007)
A team of Cornell scientists has discovered that intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn's disease may be associated with a novel group of E. coli bacteria with genes similar to bacteria that cause diseases ranging from salmonella to cholera and even bubonic plague. (Aug. 10, 2007)
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning since 2004, will be leaving Cornell to become dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design in January of 2008. (Aug. 10, 2007)
Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. (Aug. 8, 2007)
In what could be a breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson's, a team led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has completed the first-ever phase 1 clinical trial using gene therapy to battle the disease. (Aug. 8, 2007)
The State Department has named Cornell food scientist Syed Rizvi as a Jefferson Science Fellow. Fellows spend a year at the department, working to engage the academic science and engineering communities in U.S. foreign policy. (Aug. 8, 2007)
A new wind turbine on Appledore Island, home of Shoals Marine Lab, symbolizes the lab's efforts to make Appledore a case study for innovative sustainable practices. (Aug. 6, 2007)
In its summer 2007 fiction issue, The Atlantic magazine included Cornell in its list of the leading U.S. graduate writing programs, citing the quality of the program's alumni and faculty, its selectivity and its resources. (Aug. 6, 2007)
Among all American colleges and universities, Cornell University's motto is the best, according to Motto magazine, which recently released its first annual Top 10 Motto List. (Aug. 6, 2007)
