Roller coaster fans form a club and win a prize

A group of students have formed a club dedicated to the engineering side of roller coasters and other amusement park rides, and earned a prize in the first annual Ryerson T.H.R.I.L.L. Invitational Design Competition.

Research, innovation allows Corning to thrive, says CEO

Corning Inc. CEO Wendell Weeks said his company has survived and thrived for 163 years by embracing research-based innovation in a campus talk Nov. 17.

The case of Hu Shih as the 'Greatest Cornellian'

Sherman Cochran, the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History Emeritus, presented his case that Hu Shih, Class of 1914, is the greatest Cornelian in a Nov. 20 talk on campus.

ILR's Rachel Harmon wins 2015 Rhodes Scholarship

Rachel Harmon ’15 is the recipient of a 2015 Rhodes Scholarship. She will continue her studies and social justice work at the University of Oxford, England.

Michael Schwerner '61 earns posthumous Medal of Freedom

President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the families of slain civil rights workers Michael Schwerner ’61, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman in a ceremony Nov. 24 at the White House.

Hospital exec shares how to transform urban health care

John W. Bluford III, former president of Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, share lessons in the hospital's efforts to transform health though close community engagement.

MFA alumna Bulawayo's fiction stays close to home

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo, MFA ‘10, spoke on campus DATE about her creative writing process and the influence of Cornell's MFA program on her work.

Latino students' role in the '69 Straight takeover

Ileana Durand ’72, a former student of Puerto Rican origin, recounted the role of Latino students in the 1969 takeover of Willard Straight Hall in a campus talk Nov. 20.

Iceland president: Green energy forges good business

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.