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Beck honored for Brooklyn service projects

The award honors Sam Beck, director of the Urban Semester Program, for his work with community partners to improve the lives of low- and middle-income families in Brooklyn.

Big Red fans recycle, compost 96 percent of game trash

To ease our blue planet's environmental pressures, the Cornell Big Red turned green at the university's first Zero Landfill basketball game on Feb. 23. The fans helped divert 96 percent of the trash.

Things to Do, March 1-8

Events on campus this week include animator Lewis Klahr, African musician Tony Bird, 'The Vagina Monologues' at Bailey Hall and Pancho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band in the Cornell Concert Series.

Assemblies Update, Week of Feb. 25

An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.

Sachs explores cemetery roots of American parks

In his new book 'Arcadian America,' historian Aaron Sachs examines a lost American environmental tradition, in the cemeteries that served as the nation's first urban parks.

Library receives Abraham Lincoln letter

A letter in the hand of Abraham Lincoln, dated Aug. 20, 1863, has been donated to the Cornell University Library.

Faculty examine future of research libraries

Faculty considered the future of research libraries in a Feb. 14 forum. Cornell's librarian noted that 60 percent of the library's collections budget goes to licensing electronic content.

Pet clinic to offer services in Albany March 30

Veterinary students under the supervision of veterinarians will offer subsidized veterinary care for dogs and cats March 30 at the Albany YMCA.

Mosh pits can shed light on panic situations

Moshers' behavior, like flocks of birds or gas particles, can be predicted with simplified theoretical models, physicists say.

Physicists crack science of ice formation

For a variety of common cryoprotectants, the time for ice to form has a simple exponential variation with concentration.

Backyard bird count goes global, shatters records

The first global Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 15-18, was the largest worldwide bird count ever; bird-watchers counted more than 25 million birds.

Johnson team wins renewable energy competition

Five students from Cornell's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management captured first place Feb. 21 at the University of Michigan's fourth Renewable Energy Case Competition.