Juniors Eowyn Connolly-Brown, Michael Grundler, Stephen Linderman and Aman Prasad have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for 2009. They are among 278 scholars chosen from a field of 1,097 students nationwide. (April 2, 2009)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Teaching Winery opened April 1. The winery, attached to the Cornell Orchards store, will act as the Ithaca hub for CALS' new viticulture and enology undergraduate major. (April 2, 2009)
The Physical Sciences Library in Clark Hall will close at the end of 2009, but the library's presence will continue to be a portal for scholarly resources and services.
Jonathan Wong will present a collaborative performance piece, 'The Same Dance 4 Times,' April 8 at 5 p.m. in the Weill Hall atrium. He will receive the 2008-09 Undergraduate Artist Award after the performance. (April 2, 2009)
Cornell professor Laurent Dubreuil will investigate non-standard logic and the cognitive study of language with the help of a $274,000 Mellon New Directions Fellowship. (April 2, 2009)
Cornell researchers have taught a computer to derive natural laws from observation of events in the real world - without any prior scientific knowledge on the part of the computer. (April 2, 2009)
Cornell and extension are helping upstate municipalities engage in a dialogue about merging or sharing services to be more sustainable. (April 2, 2009)
A 4-H group in Ontario County is helping local firefighters and other emergency responders by mapping hydrants and other vital information. (April 2, 2009)
More than 100 Cornell students spent their spring break tackling such issues as urban poverty and hunger on service-learning trips in a number of different places on the East Coast. (April 2, 2009)
Seth Cochran '00, M.Eng. '01, has started a nonprofit called Operation OF, now being piloted in Uganda, dedicated to ending obstetric fistula worldwide. (April 2, 2009)
