A contest held by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise produced innovative, multi-fuel cookers for the developing world.
Beginning this spring, the university will offer its first four massive open online courses, allowing anyone to take Cornell classes from the comfort of their home computer. The tuition is free.
A collaborative venture among Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College, the Downtown Ithaca Incubator was launched Jan. 16 at its home in the Carey Building on East State Street.
Kirby Edmonds, a Dorothy Cotton Institute senior fellow, will present the keynote address at a luncheon, Jan. 20, at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School. Librada Paz, council member of the western New York for the Rural and Migrant Ministry, will give an afternoon keynote at Ithaca College.
Senior extension associate Keith Tidball, an expert on disaster response and recovery, has been selected a 2014 visiting scholar by the United States Department of Agriculture.
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington has opened a new exhibit “Spirit & Opportunity: 10 Years Roving Across Mars,” a retrospective that recounts the Mars mission and the Cornell scientific triumphs of the rovers.
