'Big Red, Big Impact' engages Chicago audience

President David Skorton led the event, held at the Art Institute of Chicago, to cap off Cornell’s yearlong celebration of the Morrill Land Grant Act’s 150th anniversary.

Landscape architecture program inspires local teens

DesignTeach is a youth outreach program that introduces teenagers to the concepts and skills of landscape architecture. A first-year student discusses its influence on her.

Record number of student-volunteers go Into the Streets

A record number of Cornell students volunteered to do community service through Into the Streets, a program celebrating its 22nd anniversary.

Indoor cats sought for hyperthyroidism study

Cornell invites cat owners to register their pets in a free hyperthyroidism study at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine as part of a collaborative project that will further the understanding of treatment options.

Expert: U.S. must do more to protect climate, environment

Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, spoke on campus Oct. 22 about the need for greater use of nonpolluting sources of energy.

Innovator award bestowed upon the late Ray Wu

Ray J. Wu, the late Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, won posthumously the 2013 Ezra Technology Innovator Award. It was presented Oct. 24.

Welcome new members of the Cornell faculty

To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.

Artist tells how he found his calling with 'stickwork'

"Stickwork" Patrick Dougherty talked about how he became a sculptor who works with natural materials in a Messenger lecture Oct. 23.

From Lost Boy of Sudan to Cornell grad student

Graduate student Ayuen Ajok recently told middle school students what it was like to be a Lost Boy of Sudan. He fled his village in 1987 and walked for thousands of miles, often without food or water.