Stephen Paletta '87, winner of the reality TV show 'Oprah's Big Give' in April 2008, is helping to organize a service-learning trip to Rwanda for eight Cornell students starting June 4. (May 19, 2009)
Cornell honored local members of Delta Company, Second Battalion, 108th Infantry Division that deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 and their families at a ceremony May 17 at Bailey Hall. (May 18, 2009)
Cornell President David Skorton has been tapped by New York Gov. David Paterson to lead the Task Force on Diversifying the New York State Economy Through Industry-Higher Education Partnerships. (May 14, 2009)
Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel laureate in chemistry and the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters at Cornell, has received the 2009 Public Service Award from the National Science Board. (May 14, 2009)
This summer, two Cornell undergraduates will hand out free laptops to 100 elementary schoolchildren in the rural city of Tidjikja, Mauritania, in northwest Africa, thanks to a $30,000 grant. (May 12, 2009)
Cornell Law School's 261 graduates attended their convocation ceremony in Bailey Hall May 10. The annual event was conducted by Stewart J. Schwab, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law. (May 12, 2009)
Do dairy cows raised on organic farms produce different amounts of milk or suffer from less disease? A $1 million grant from the USDA will study 300 dairy farms - of which 200 meet organic standards. (May 11, 2009)
For the fourth year in a row, a class in the College of Human Ecology is giving $10,000 to local nonprofit organizations in the Ithaca community as part of a learning experience about philanthropy. (May 4, 2009)
Cornell researchers are spending time in the fields this spring collecting 20,000 alfalfa snout beetles. They need them to test ways to biologically control the pests, which devour alfalfa and other crops.
