Mann Library garden certified by 'green' landscape system

A garden at Cornell's Mann Library entrance is one of 11 landscapes in the country to be certified by the Sustainable Sites Initiative, a new 'green' certification system for built landscapes. (Sept. 25, 2012)

New associate VP/university controller named

Aimee Turner, chief financial officer and treasurer of the J. Craig Venter Institute, has been named Cornell associate vice president and university controller. She will begin her post Oct. 17. (Sept. 24, 2012)

Aimee Turner named associate vice president and controller

VP and chief financial officer Joanne DeStefano has announced that Aimee Turner of the J. Craig Venter Institute has accepted the position of associate vice president and university controller. (Sept. 24, 2012)

Endowed chair honors Holocaust victims

Holocaust survivor Marianne Willems-Hendrix endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Cornell despite never having attended the university. It encourages study of Jewish women. (Sept. 24, 2012)

Big Red Band breaks ground for a home of its own

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Big Red Band's own facility Sept. 22 was part of Homecoming Weekend. (Sept. 24, 2012)

'Smart' pumpkin growing wins contest, boosts scholarships

Larry and Christine Smart, both associate professors, win a contest for growing the largest pumpkin.

Google's Schmidt: Students will provide pulse, heart of technology's future

The technology of the future will come sooner, and be stranger, than any of us can imagine, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google Inc., at the Sept. 20 Hatfield lecture. (Sept. 24, 2012)

Murky media landscape endangers democracy, says New York Times columnist

In his Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Charles Blow used the Trayvon Martin case to illustrate how today's news consumers make little distinction between straight reporting and agenda-driven activism. (Sept. 21, 2012)

Enthusiasm for professor's ideas sparks new organization

An interview English professor Satya Mohanty gave to the South Asian Review has created an explosive reaction and a new organization, the Global South Cultural Dialogue Project. (Sept. 20, 2012)