Leonie Brinkema, Cornell J.D. '76, recently made headlines as the judge in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who on May 4 was convicted of being an accomplice in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Composing inspirational music is Dick Lee's way to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord." And he's been doing so since he composed his first piece at age 5. A member of the Class of 1941, Lee is one of Cornell's oldest living…
World-renowned architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, is returning to Cornell's campus -- not just for his 50th reunion or to view the progress of his landmark campus building, but for the premier of a video -- "Big Red to…
Cornell student engineers did not win the FSAE world championship race-car competition this year -- as they did last year and in eight previous years -- possibly due to an error by the competition organizers. But with pit work…
'First-Person Cornell' (Cornell University Library, 2006), written by historian and Cornell lecturer Carol Kammen, invites us into the daily lives of Cornell students.
Ahh, the sounds of summer: the fluid spiraling call of the wood thrush, the lulling babble of nearby streams and creeks ... the rapid-fire blasts from the common jackhammer, the infernal growling of large internal combustion…
The U.S. government has awarded the Arthur S. Fleming Award to Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station (USDA-ARS) research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and an…
Reunion Weekend 2006 at Cornell, June 8-11, will welcome the "Classes of 1s and 6s" with a full slate of events for some 6,700 attendees, including family members, from classes ranging from 1931 to 2001. "It's very volunteer…
Brooklyn-born Cornell graduate Lee Bienstock, B.S. '05, a business analyst with Accenture, a global management consulting company, is in the final stretch on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice," on NBC. He's hoping that Cornellians…
Among the unusual life forms found in peat bogs are carnivorous pitcher plants and methanogens, methane-producing single-celled organisms that live in oxygen-free environments.
The 2005-06 search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas' 550,000-acre Big Woods has officially ended without any conclusive new evidence of the elusive bird's existence. But search crews remain optimistic about next season…
Every spring since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. The nine Tradition fellows who have been honored…
