Donations of canned goods and nonperishable foods will be collected on campus for local food pantries March 11. United Way of Tompkins County is sponsoring the fundraiser. (March 5, 2009)
Editors' picks for the week of March 6 include a forum on water in the Mediterranean, a conference on transgender rhetoric, a celebrity chef visit and a performance by the iO String Quartet. (March 5, 2009)
The new Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, funded with a $1.5 million grant from the Avon Foundation for Women, will work with judges in an effort to bring justice to women survivors of violence. (March 4, 2009)
Giving high school students access to computers and spreading awareness of what causes malaria were the goals of two different student groups who conducted service trips to Ghana over winter break. (March 4, 2009)
Agronomist and business strategist Daniel Fungai Mataruka, Ph.D. '92, has been appointed executive director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. (March 4, 2009)
LeNorman Strong, assistant vice president for student and academic services at Cornell since 1998, is leaving Cornell to take a position at the University of California-Berkley. (March 4, 2009)
Since 1999 about 75 faculty and student projects that examine the technological, social, political and economic elements of sustainable agriculture have benefited from the Toward Sustainability Foundation. (March 4, 2009)
Cornell announces volunteer training sessions to help identify and report new infestations of deadly hemlock pest around Cornell and in Ithaca's gorges. (March 4, 2009)
Cornell computer science students are using computer games to attract public school students to computer science with a free after-school course in game-making. (March 4, 2009)
African-Americans account for nearly 70 percent of all new HIV/AIDS cases, and teen pregnancy rates may be rising again. Text messaging may be one way to help address such daunting public health issues. (March 4, 2009)
Josephine Allen, professor emerita of policy analysis and management, was the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Cornell. Retiring after 32 years, she looks back at her career. (March 3, 2009)
