Students take top prize for developing cassava cookies for poor nations

Various Cornellians reaped prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, June 11-14, including a student team who took first prize for developing cassava cookies for poor countries.

Cut the electronic umbilical cord, Cornell lecturer says in guide for parents of college students

A new book gives parents advice on loosening the so-called electronic umbilical cord to their college-age children, along with tips for such common challenges as the freshman 15 and roommate problems. (June 27, 2011)

Joe Thomas to resume teaching at end of five-year term as Johnson dean

L. Joseph Thomas, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School, has announced he will return to teaching and research when his five-year term as dean ends June 30, 2012.

Poet Laureate Gail Holst-Warhaft's passions include the harpsichord, hiking and Greece

Gail Holst-Warhaft, Ph.D. '92, an adjunct professor of comparative literature, biological and environmental engineering and a poetry writer, was named Tompkins County poet laureate for 2011.

Assistance program for faculty and staff moves

The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP, formerly the Employee Assistance Program, or EAP) is moving to Collegetown, at 409 College Ave., Suite 201, beginning July 1. (June 22, 2011)

State's first hops specialist on tap to promote New York beer production

Cornell Cooperative Extension has hired a hops specialist to promote New York beer production while using local sources, reducing their carbon footprint and keeping jobs in the state. (June 21, 2011)

Cornell websites, alumni relations garner CASE awards

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education annual Circle of Excellence Awards has given bronze medals to two Cornell websites and a silver medal for alumni relations programs. (June 21, 2011)

Cornell celebrates dance and the arts at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

President David Skorton explored themes of dance and celebrated artistic director Judith Jamison's career at the Joan Weill Center for Dance and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Manhattan June 8. (June 20, 2011)

Cornell proposes 'transformative' NYC campus

Cornell's New York City footprint may soon grow larger with the addition of a new applied sciences research center and campus. The university plans to respond to a Request for Proposals for the project this summer.