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Despite significant recommended cuts from NSF for Arecibo, Cornell astronomers are optimistic about observatory's future

On Nov. 3, the Senior Review, an advisory panel to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, recommended a 24 percent cut in funding over the next three years for Arecibo Observatory, which…

Indian students visit Cornell as part of dual-nation course on developing-world agriculture

Twenty students, a faculty member and two administrators from three universities in India have just competed a two-week trip to Cornell, capping off a semester with the joint Cornell-India course, Agriculture in Developing…

Cornell's care and use of animals surpasses standards, international accreditation association reports

Cornell's animal care and use program, which accounts for the well-being of all the animals in departments across campus, has received full accreditation.

Housing expert Laquatra to receive Outstanding Engagement Award

Joseph Laquatra has been named the first recipient of the Outstanding Engagement Award from the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) Board of Human Sciences.

Cornell Theory Center joins team to build world's most powerful high-performance computer for academic research

Cornell Theory Center (CTC) has teamed with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin which will build, operate and support a high-performance computing system to provide unprecedented…

Trustees name six faculty members J. Thomas Clark Professors

The Cornell Board of Trustees has named six faculty members J. Thomas Clark Professors of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise. The three-year appointments foster participation in the Entrepreneurship@Cornell program by…

100-million-year-old discovery pushes bees' evolutionary history back 35 million years

The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber - perhaps the oldest bee ever found - 'pushes the bee fossil record back about 35 million years,' according to Bryan Danforth.

Soldier who fell in World War I will be remembered in Veterans Day ceremony with replacement of Baldwin Memorial Stairway time capsule

Morgan Smiley Baldwin, Cornell Class of 1915, is buried in France where he died from wounds received during the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, the last major offensive of World War I.

World-class services now easily available to Blackboard users

Mike Tolomeo/ProvidedTony Cosgrave, the instruction coordinator for Cornell Library's Department of Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach, right, works with Marilyn Dispensa, an instructional designer from CIT, during…

For Howard Evans, whole world is a classroom for a teacher, an anatomist and a raconteur

Howard Evans is going on 85, but beneath the veneer of age lurks a bright, adventurous boy who spent his early years looking under rocks and catching bugs and frogs in New York City's Central Park.

Paul Steen's latest invention makes a walk on the ceiling not so far-fetched

Paul Steen's teenage daughters think it's funny their father earns his living playing with soap bubbles.

Irwin and Joan Jacobs endow $30 million in scholarships to engineering college

Cornell alumni Irwin '54, BEE '56, and Joan '54 Jacobs have established a $30 million scholarship and fellowship endowment for Cornell's College of Engineering.