The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $699,000 grant for research and training in higher education economics to the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.
This semester a horticulture class prepared for a spring break trip to Belize -- not to hit the beach but to show how school gardens can enrich curricula and serve as a foundation for community education programs. (April 3, 2009)
Cornell and extension are helping upstate municipalities engage in a dialogue about merging or sharing services to be more sustainable. (April 2, 2009)
Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. (April 2, 2009)
Ralph D. Christy, professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, has been named the new director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development. (March 30, 2009)
In August Richard Swedberg will begin a one-year term as chair of the American Sociological Association's theory section, and Dan Lichter will step down from his post as chair of the ASA's family section. (March 25, 2009)
The fifth annual Educator Professional Development Day and its 110 workshop offerings attracted some 1,200 teachers from the Ithaca, Dryden and Lansing school districts. (March 24, 2009)
The Science Leadership Academy provides ideas, supplies, mentors and networking opportunities that the academy hopes the teachers will use to engage students in biology, chemistry and physics. (March 20, 2009)
Marcia Pappas, president of the N.Y. chapter of the National Organization of Women, was one of four panelists discussing sexism in the workplace as part of the International Women's Day celebration March 11. (March 20, 2009)
