'Get to know your professors' is among the advice for students in the Class of 2016 from the university's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows and graduate student mentors. (Aug. 15, 2012)
The journey for new students at Cornell begins this week with Orientation 2012, Aug. 17-21, and more than 100 events introducing students to the diverse scope of the university and its resources. (Aug. 15, 2012)
To start their year, 65 freshman and transfer students, led by 15 leaders, volunteered in the community to get to know their new town and each other. (Aug. 15, 2012)
A new study shows that the lack of a certain gene plays a role in some 60,000 breast cancer patients in the United States and 383,000 worldwide. (Aug. 14, 2012)
Women make up the majority - 52.7 percent - of Cornell's incoming Class of 2016, a diverse group of 3,270 freshmen coming from 47 states and 46 countries. (Aug. 14, 2012)
A block of about 500 grapevines at Cornell Orchards - a little more than half an acre - is now certified organic by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York. (Aug. 14, 2012)
The Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative is teaming with a federal bureau to give mortgage consumers input into new rules that will effect their borrowing. (Aug. 13, 2012)
Cornell's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team first place in the 15th International RoboSub Competition, also winning a prize for technical merit. (Aug. 13, 2012)
Cornell's SRI-Rice Center is helping West African countries scale-up their environmentally friendly, highly productive rice cropping methods. (Aug. 13, 2012)
