Development of the ILR School's global service learning curriculum continues in January, when a school delegation visits health, education and leadership learning sites in India. (Jan. 13, 2011)
Events on campus this week include: a teaching conference, Nano exhibit, talks on renewable energy and caregivers, first 'Soup and Hope' lunch, book reading and opening 'Light in Winter' events. (Jan. 13, 2011)
Six custodial staff were recognized with the Bartels Award for Custodial Service Excellence, others with scholarship awards. The awards are endowed by gifts from Phil Bartels '71 and his family. (Jan. 13, 2011)
President Barack Obama will lead a memorial service in Tucson Jan. 12, and the Cornell community reflected on the tragedy of six dead and 14 wounded, including Cornellians Gabrielle Giffords and Susan Hileman. (Jan. 12, 2011)
Cornell is taking a leading role in the country's first National Geothermal Academy, expected to launch this summer with an intensive training program. (Jan. 12, 2011)
ILR School student Kristen McClellan '12 is developing her business idea for a spray-on sunscreen system after appearing on an MTV-sponsored entrepreneurship contest.
The three-year, $318,000 grant from the NASA New Investigator Program will support Lohman's study of subsiding deltas and sea level rise worldwide with space-based geodetic observations. (Jan. 12, 2011)
Computer scientist Johannes Gehrke has an Alexander von Humboldt award to support a collaborative research project at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbruecken, Germany. (Jan. 12, 2011)
New genetic analysis holds promise to prevent dangerous pathogen Listeria, which kills 300 Americans each year. Food scientist Martin Widemann's research tested for the presence of several genes. (Jan. 11, 2011)
The world could have enough food for it's burgeoning population with more investments in research and infrastructure, said Robert Thompson '67 at the New York State Ag Society Meeting Jan. 6. (Jan. 11, 2011)