A report on the Great E-mail Outage of 2008 offers measures to deal with future technical problems and to improve communication with the public. (Sept. 11, 2008)
University Librarian Anne Kenney is at work on technical and administrative fronts, but her chief priority is the renovation of Olin Library. (Sept. 10, 2008)
The 'tree' simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive capillary action that allows real trees to wick moisture upward to their highest branches. (Sept. 10, 2008)
Parents' education and income, as opposed to school funding, are better predictors of a student's success, says Cornell sociologist Stephen Morgan. (Sept. 9, 2008)
President David Skorton answered questions about sustainability, diversity and the Freshman Reading Project on WVBR's Sunday Forum radio show Sept. 7. (Sept. 9, 2008)
The Susan H. Murphy Fellowship has been established by an anonymous donor to honor Murphy, Cornell vice president for student and academic services. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Sara Horowitz, ILR '84, founder of Working Today, a union for flexible workers, delivered the Iscol Family Program lecture on the need for new kinds of unions, Sept. 8. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Cornell Professor Robert Morgan shares a birthday and more with writer Thomas Wolfe. And Morgan will receive the 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize Oct. 2 at the University of North Carolina, where both writers are alumni. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Pianist and composer Jason Moran will open the 2008-09 Cornell Concert Series Sept. 20 with a free concert, a multimedia tribute to Thelonious Monk. (Sept. 9, 2008)
