About 100 humans and their dogs, cats, birds and even pet camel are part of Cornell Companions, a pet visitation group that visits schools, nursing homes and other institutions.
Cornell's United Way Campaign is making strides but still has a way to go: As of Dec. 8, members of the Cornell community have reached 83 percent ($598,349) of the university's $725,000 goal. (Dec. 10, 2009)
Students in the School of Hotel Administration are helping to plan the Harlem Hospitality Project to provide hospitality and culinary arts educational opportunities to students in Harlem. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicts that 2010 will bring flat growth, high unemployment rates unlikely to budge, and continued turmoil in the housing market. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)
The contingent hopes to use the meeting as a springboard for creating interdisciplinary partnerships at Cornell to research pressing climate issues in the future.
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
A panel of experts in geology, energy, groundwater and public policy educated the Cornell community about the broad range of competing energy and environmental issues surrounding the drilling controversy. (Dec. 3, 2009)
