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New registry speeds international Cornell travel

A new online travel registry makes Cornell student travel abroad on university business safer and easier.

New book gives math everyday meaning

The 2012 volume 'The Best Writing on Mathematics,' edited by Cornell’s Mircea Pitici, helps the average person understand how math relates to daily life.

Things to Do, Feb. 8-15

Events on campus this week include Darwin Days panels and lectures, Oscar-nominated short films, poetry from Ishion Hutchinson and a faculty forum on the future of research libraries.

Contest harvests names for new wine grapes

After a naming challenge drew 1,100 suggestions from around the world, a Cornell breeder has revealed the secret identities of two new wine grapes - Arandell and Aromella.

Letter: Keeton’s work on pigeons homes in

An alumnus points to the striking connections that a new research paper on homing pigeon navigation has to Cornell.

Diplomat to give Bartels talk on converging East with West

Kishore Mahbubani, former president of the United Nations Security Council, will deliver the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels 2013 World Affairs Fellowship Lecture Feb. 13.

Assemblies Update, Week of Feb. 4

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.

Blame Barney: Students' perception of T. rex is outdated

Students' perceptions of the Tyrannosaurus rex anatomy is still stuck in the early 1900s, according to a Cornell research team.

Keith Olbermann '79 helps WVBR move to new digs

The student-run independent radio station WVBR-FM will have a bigger, more functional home this fall, helped by a gift from one of its best-known alumni, Keith Olbermann '79.

CT scanner helps answer 150-year-old question of lung evolution

New research at Cornell using computed tomography technology has gone a long way toward showing that lungs and gas bladders really are variations of the same organ.

Author Wes Moore to address human potential Feb. 11

Author and youth advocate Wes Moore will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, 'Potential is Universal,' Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. in Sage Chapel.

Cornell Asian Alumni Association honors Lisa Yang '75

More than 230 administrators, alumni and friends celebrated Lisa Yang, ILR ’74, at the Cornell Asian Alumni Association’s 22nd annual banquet Feb. 2 at Manhattan’s Golden Unicorn Restaurant.