A Cornell student who graduated in December won the top prize at an international conference for a dress she designed and created while a student. The dress features 2,000 shell buttons. (June 19, 2009)
In the second year of the Cornell Library's Information Competency Initiative, instructors once again pair up with librarians to teach students better research skills. (June 19, 2009)
At a June 12 presentation, University Archivist Elaine Engst revealed Cornell's historical secrets to about 55 members of the Alumni Affairs and Development staff.
The Cornell Council for the Arts announced painter James Siena '79 will receive the 2009-10 Eissner Artist of the Year Award, and Dorian Bandy '10 the annual Cornell Undergraduate Artist Award. (June 16, 2009)
Judith Byfield, Cornell associate professor of history and Africana studies, will serve in 2009-10 as vice president of the African Studies Association, an international group of scholars. (June 15, 2009)
Things to do include a premier of 'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer' in Willard Straight Theatre and a hands-on Twitter workshop. (June 15, 2009)
Cornell's Bioacoustics Research Program helped confirm, for the first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales. (May 28, 2009)
In 'Part and Apart: The Black Experience at Cornell, 1865-1945,' historian Carol Kammen pieces together a picture of African-American student life in the university's first 80 years. (May 28, 2009)
