Team Sapsucker from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology set a new national record on April 22 for the highest number of bird species identified in a 24-hour period.
Cornell will present its second Partners in Sustainability Award to the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative at the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce April 29. (April 28, 2011)
Students in Staffing Organizations classes conduct intergenerational research that could inform Cornell's faculty and staff recruitment and retention efforts. (April 28, 2011)
Stamp-size satellites, developed at Cornell, are getting a test run aboard the space shuttle Endeavour when it launches April 29. They are designed to blow in the solar wind and collect data. (April 27, 2011)
Peter Davies, a Cornell plant physiologist, will serve as an adviser to the U.S. government on agricultural and food policy issues as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. Department of State. (April 27, 2011)
Poet Joanie Mackowski described her efforts to challenge herself and write about non-humans in her poetry, speaking April 25 at this semester's final Literary Luncheon. (April 27, 2011)
Linguist Gillian Ramchand explained how language is used to better understand human cognition when she gave a humanities lecture April 14 on campus. (April 27, 2011)
In New York City March 28, a panel of theater critics, who honored this year's recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award from Cornell, blamed the Internet for the demise of theater criticism. (April 27, 2011)
Events on campus this week include Scottish singer Jean Redpath, CU Winds in concert, 'The Tempest' at Cornell Cinema and a public service lecture by Jane Coyne '88.
Legendary Cornell government professor Theodore Lowi has co-authored a new, interactive dictionary of political science concepts, 'Hyperpolitics.' (April 26, 2011)
Political analyst/journalist Fareed Zakaria said April 25 on campus that while we struggled with a sagging economy, other economies grew to such an extent that we're seeing a 'post-American' world. (April 26, 2011)
A Cornell study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology describe how to distinguish true and false memories using methods that may ultimately help in the courtroom. (April 26, 2011)
