For the second time in three years, the Cornell Chemical Engineering Car team won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student car competition, which took place Nov. 7 in Salt Lake City. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Chemistry's Hector Abruna was chosen to present the 2010 S.C. Lind Lectures by the American Chemical Society of East Tennessee. He is also the 2011 recipient of the Faraday Medal. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Cornell Students Against Sweatshops will be presented with the American Labor Museum's social justice award for its role in promoting college apparel manufacturers who pay a living wage. (Nov. 15, 2010)
To improve human health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, barriers that exist between the food and health systems need to be broken down, said Per Pinstrup-Andersen speaking at the U.N. (Nov. 15, 2010)
High school seniors from the metropolitan area and their parents got a look at Cornell admissions and campus life for minority students in New York City, Nov. 12. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Unless the U.S. economy has a major downturn or New York state severely cuts funding, Cornell will not face significant downsizing, President David Skorton said Nov. 12 at his Annual Address to Staff. (Nov. 12, 2010)
Philanthropist and retired businessman Fred Young '64, M.Eng. '66, MBA '66, has committed $11 million to CCAT, a proposed 25-meter aperture telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.
Despite the steps he took to try to avert it, the 2008 financial crisis was unstoppable, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in the 29th Hatfield Address, Nov. 11 in Bailey Hall. (Nov. 12, 2010)
The new book 'Adam Frey: A Collection of Blogs and Stories' is based on Frey's blog as a student-athlete cancer patient. A wrestler, Frey, Class of 2011, died in December 2009. (Nov. 12, 2010)
Events on campus this week include Margaret Bruchac colloquium, the Hangovers concert, 'Our Town' performance and lectures by Carolina Barco, Michael Miller '74, Donald Rakow and M.H. Abrams. (Nov. 11, 2010)
