Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the 2001 World Food Prize laureate, has been named 'the most important Dane in the world' in combating poverty by Denmark's leading development magazine. (Oct. 27, 2009)
Cornell was recently recognized as one of only 13 schools - and the first Ivy League School - by the Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Campus USA program for practicing sound campus forestry for 2009. (Oct. 27, 2009)
The $13 million Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis will focus on using nanobiotechnology and other related physical science approaches to advance research on cancer. (Oct. 27, 2009)
A $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will create VIVOweb, a multi-institutional version of Cornell's VIVO system to encourage communication between biomedical researchers. (Oct. 27, 2009)
A team of Cornell researchers recently tested their work on the mysterious physical phenomenon of flux pinning aboard a near-zero gravity aircraft. (Oct. 27, 2009)
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades. (Oct. 27, 2009)
In a new book, 'The Mathematics of Sex,' Cornell professors Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams discuss why women are underrepresented in the math-intensive fields of science. (Oct. 27, 2009)
On a drizzly gray day, visitors were cheered Oct. 23 by a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cornell Plantations Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at the Mullestein Winter garden, next to Plantations Road. (Oct. 27, 2009)
Michael Kaplitt, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College, talked about his career and research, which includes developing gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, in a talk on campus Oct. 20. (Oct. 27, 2009)
Cornell will return to a 'healthy pace' of faculty hiring by 2015, said President David Skorton in the State of the University address Oct. 23. He also emphasized that the path to Cornell's future leads out of its past.
In his Oct. 22 Hatfield Lecture, the CEO of SC Johnson urged business, government and consumers to work together to save the environment. (Oct. 23, 2009)
Historian Carol Kammen discussed the experiences of black students early in Cornell's history Oct. 15 at the Africana Studies and Research Center. (Oct. 23, 2009)
