Despite icy roads and 10 inches of fresh snow, about 300 January 2009 graduates and their families and friends made it to Barton Hall Dec. 20 for the January Graduate Recognition Event and Reception. (Dec. 22, 2008)
Campus officials encourage the Cornell community to help save energy over the holiday break by turning off computers and unplugging electronics. (Dec. 22, 2008)
Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student George K. Lewis is making therapeutic ultrasound devices that are smaller, more powerful and many times less expensive than today's models. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Cellist Adrianne Ngam, an architecture major, won the fifth annual Cornell Concerto Competition Dec. 14 in Barnes Hall. She will be featured in a March 1 concert with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center has released the odds of a white Christmas for cities in the Northeast. Pinkham Notch, N.H., tops the list with a 95 percent chance of having snow on the ground Dec. 25. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Cornell's Mann Library has added the first 20 volumes of The American Bee Journal, the first English-language journal devoted to the beekeeping field, to its online library of historical beekeeping materials.
Professor Sandra Vehrencamp records bird songs and plays them back to birds to better understand exactly how birds use songs to communicate and convey information. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Jessica Evett-Miller '00, M.F.A. '09, has received the second annual Margaret Bourke-White Photography Portfolio Prize. Her winning portfolio, 'Strata,' will be displayed in Tjaden Hall Jan. 19-23. (Dec. 18, 2008)
For entrepreneurial Cornell students, the 168 entrepreneurship classes offered on campus prepare them for a business future -- but many students don't wait until graduation to start a business. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Conservationists, policymakers and industry leaders were in Ithaca Dec. 8 to hear from Cornell experts on how climate change affects state ecosystems and how best to respond to a warming planet. (Dec. 18, 2008)
