Alexander Atkind, the former Cornell student who pleaded guilty in September to felony animal abuse, was sentenced to six months in county jail and five years probation in Tompkins County Court. (Oct. 23, 2007)
Astronomer Judith Pipher, who earned her Ph.D. from Cornell in 1971, was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y., earlier this year. (Oct. 23, 2007)
Certain varieties of common fescue lawn grass come equipped with their own natural broad-spectrum herbicide that inhibits the growth of weeds and other plants around them. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Graduate students in Professor Rob Bloomfield's Business and Oversight in Second Life seminar use avatars, or virtual personas, to study business and policy issues in the virtual-reality world of Second Life. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Although Cornell's Solar Decathlon team did not fare as well this year as in 2005, the biennial competition held on the National Mall last week proved to be an invaluable experience for team members, students said. (Oct. 22, 2007)
How Cornell's historic land-grant mission is still viable today in helping an increasingly globalized community was discussed by Vice Provost Ronald Seeber and Professor Max Pfeffer, at an Oct. 19 trustees meeting. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Any person, any study ... any country. That was the theme of a presentation to the Cornell Board of Trustees, Oct. 19, in Statler Hall. A panel of five students spoke of their experiences in other countries. (Oct. 22, 2007)
A team of Cornell professors have helped Rousse University, Bulgaria, develop a master's degree program and off-campus certificate program in regional development. (Oct. 22, 2007)
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)
