'Showcasing Hospitality Education Through Student Leadership' is the theme of this year's Hotel Ezra Cornell, now in its 83rd year, and 300 industry leaders and alumni will visit Cornell April 3-6. (March 26, 2008)
Retirees who move to rural areas often have a positive impact on local economies, but they also drive up housing prices and can have other negative effects, Cornell research finds. (March 26, 2008)
Researchers hoping to use carbon nanotubes for quantum computing -- in which the spin of a single electron would represent a bit of data -- may have to change their approaches, Cornell physicists say. (March 26, 2008)
Many hands are stitching together a project that gives a compact fluorescent light bulb and reusable tote bag to the 1,400 households in Caroline, N.Y., thanks to a bright idea promoted by Shawn Lindabury '09. (March 25, 2008)
Cornell Outdoor Education has designed a 'Learn to Climb' program specifically for Cornell staff, faculty, families and the local community. (March 25, 2008)
American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault and USA Today senior reporter David Lieberman will be on campus April 3 for a forum hosted by Cornell's Johnson School and the School of Hotel Administration. (March 25, 2008)
'Lighten up,' humorist and educator Sandy Queen said in a presentation at Cornell's Humor Day Program, March 19. She said: 'The whole point is to die as young as possible as late in life as possible.' (March 25, 2008)
Terri Whitaker, office manager at the Sage Management Library in the Johnson School and a trained emergency medical technician, recently saved the life of a Cornell student who had gone into cardiac arrest. (March 25, 2008)
Scott Williamson, assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology at Cornell, died March 14 from glioblastoma. Williamson, 32, was a rising star in the field of population genetics. (March 25, 2008)
Jefferson W. Tester '66, M.S. '67, will hold the first Croll Professorship of Sustainable Energy Systems in the College of Engineering. He will speak on campus, March 28-29, during the college's alumni association conference. (March 25, 2008)
President David Skorton tells national reporters that higher education, especially in science and math, must be looked at as a problem solver and not as a separate interest group.
This year, Maple Weekend is March 29-30, but by 2080, it could be as early as Jan. 29-30 in northern New York, say climate change experts. (March 24, 2008)
