The groundbreaking ceremony for the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in Portland, N.Y., will take place Oct. 29 at the site of the new lab in Chautauqua County at 1 p.m. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Irene Rosenfeld, CEO and chairman of Kraft Foods Inc., gave a summary of her strategy for turning around the fortune of the international corporation as the 2007 Lewis H. Durland Memorial lecturer, Oct. 18. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Tracy Mitrano, Cornell's director of information technology policy, says that higher education institutions should not be responsible for filtering their data networks to prevent copyright violations. (Oct. 22, 2007)
On Oct. 23 the Cornell University Program Board will release 300 more tickets for the two Stephen Colbert shows on campus, Oct. 26. Phone and Web sales will not be accepted. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Samples of the litter were collected from a New York City beach in the Rockaways for an aquatic ecology outreach demonstration by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Cornell's new mass casualty incident unit, equipped to provide medical care for up to 100 people in the event of a disaster, was unveiled publicly Oct. 18. It is the largest of its kind in Tompkins County. (Oct. 19, 2007)
Cornell has received 14 major new gifts totaling $71.5 million that include the largest donations in the university's history to the arts and humanities. (Oct. 19, 2007)
Kenneth F. Kahn's $5 million gift to endow the deanship of the Cornell ILR (industrial and labor relations) School is the largest from a donor in the school's history. (Oct. 18, 2007)
A commitment to establish a $5 million endowment for the deanship of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been made by Cornell trustee Ira Drukier '66, M.Eng. '67, and his wife, Gale. (Oct. 19, 2007)
Three gifts will help to 'transform the ability of the museum to fulfill our mission of education and research,' says Frank Robinson, director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. (Oct. 19, 2007)
Two of the major gifts to Cornell announced this week will help support sustainability and energy research on campus through the new Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future. (Oct. 19, 2007)
