Robert D. Miller, professor emeritus of soil science and former dean of the faculty at Cornell, died April 11 in Ithaca at the age of 91. (April 18, 2011)
At the inaugural Cornell Hospitality Business Plan Competition, students who developed an idea for a healthy, quick-service sushi business, won first prize and $15,000. (April 18, 2011)
The big winner of the Big Idea competition went to two juniors for a technology-enhanced bed net that helps prevent malaria while using solar power to help residents charge cell phones and run fans. (April 18, 2011)
Peter H. Coors '69, head of Molson Coors Brewing Co., spoke about growing a family business into a brewing empire at the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration 2011, April 14. (April 18, 2011)
Alumni working in Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the United Football League discussed innovations in the sports management field at an Entrepreneurship@Cornell talk. (April 18, 2011)
A new Cornell organic corn hybrid, bred to thrive in the Northeast, has been licensed and is available for sale. The hybrid is resistant to many diseases and has big seed ears. (April 15, 2011)
Staff members at the Lab of Ornithology and a Cornell graduate student have won bird conservation awards from Partners in Flight. The awards were presented on March 17 by Dan Ashe. (April 15, 2011)
Cornell University Library honored five senior student workers at the 17th annual Fuerst Awards. They were praised for their effectiveness and innovation at a reception in Olin Library on April 13. (April 15, 2011)
Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, speaking on campus as the Hans A. Bethe Lecturer, discussed the importance of the quest for discovering a room-temperature superconductor, April 13. (April 15, 2011)
In delivering the keynote April 14 at the entrepreneurship celebration, Harris Rosen '61 described his hotel career and how he decided he had enough and needed to start giving back. (April 15, 2011)
Gustavo Arnavat '84, U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, spent April 6-7 on campus talking to classes and faculty members. (April 15, 2011)
The leader of a group that advocates for low-wage workers urged students to pursue work that changes lives at the ILR School's Union Days. (April 15, 2011)
