Stewards will walk the trails and advise visitors about trails, natural history, safety rules and swimming alternatives. To help visitors enjoy the gorges safely, the university will deploy a team of gorge stewards, starting July 2.
Rachel Bean, associate professor of astronomy, is a co-recipient of the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize for her work on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team.
Richard 'Brian' How, M.S. '49, Ph.D. '56, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at Cornell, died June 26 at his home in Ithaca at age 93. (June 28, 2012)
Cornell sociologist Victor Nee explains the Chinese government's changing tolerance of capitalist dealings became fuel for the nation's economic miracle.
A professor of computer science at UCLA, Estrin is a pioneer in networked sensing, which uses mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real-time data about the physical world. (June 28, 2012)
Cornell's sesquicentennial is three years away, but let the festivities begin: This July marks the 150th anniversary of what some have called the greatest piece of legislation to come out of Congress. (June 28, 2012)
The Morrill Land Grant Act specified more than just agriculture as a discipline to be taught and recognized that other branches of science could be embraced to promote a 'practical education.'
Cornell's Scott Peters, associate professor of education, researches the public mission of American higher education and helped celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Morrill Land Grant Act in June. (June 28, 2012)
The portrait of U.S. Sen. Justin Smith Morrill that hangs in Uris Library's Class of 1957 Kinkeldey Room is 'a tribute of gratitude and respect to a national benefactor.'
