More than 60 student musicians in the Cornell Wind Ensembles participated in an outreach and education project with young instrumental music students in the Philadelphia school district in November. (Dec. 3, 2008)
Slammin' Yamz! is the winner of the annual Food Science 101 ice cream contest. The yam-flavored ice cream has beta carotene, molasses, marshmallow swirl, cinnamon and nutmeg and contains less than 4 percent fat. (Dec. 3, 2008)
ILR professor Ron Ehrenberg helped establish two endowments for students with health or disability problems, after his son Eric died from complications of a brain tumor in August. (Dec. 2, 2008)
Visiting scholar Esther Farnós-Amorós discussed who gets the embryos when a couple divorces. At play is the right not to procreate, she says. (Dec. 2, 2008)
Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect and blemish free - tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The secret? He grows all his tomatoes in high tunnels. (Dec. 2, 2008)
Staff from the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture at New York University spoke to a Cornell audience Nov. 20 about how they help victims of torture heal. (Dec. 1, 2008)
Labor and environmental leaders, meeting Nov. 25 at Cornell's Global Labor Institute in Manhattan, agreed that the potential to ally the environmental and labor communities has never been stronger. (Nov. 26, 2008)
As part of International Education Week, four Cornellians shared time with several dozen prospective Cornell students in Kolkata, India, Nov. 20 via a videoconference in Weill Hall. (Nov. 25, 2008)
Mario Beatty, a renowned Egyptologist, told a Cornell audience Nov. 24 that Egypt's sub-Saharan roots have been largely overlooked until recently. (Nov. 25, 2008)
Thirteen Cornell professors recently received awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, administered by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, for assistants to help with their courses. (Nov. 25, 2008)
