Two librarians from the University of California-Berkeley came to campus Oct. 5 to explain how their program helps redesign high-enrollment courses so more students will do research using the university's libraries.
At the 'New Frontiers' real estate conference Oct. 5, Michael Pralle, CEO of GE Real Estate, said his company has reaped big profits by turning to international and underserved real estate markets.
'The Humboldt Current,' written by Cornell history professor Aaron Sachs, is an intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science, particularly American environmentalism.
Federal funding for student aid, education and health programs will continue at fiscal year 2006 levels, at least until mid-November, because the U.S. Congress has recessed until Nov. 13 without resolving most of its important spending and policy decisions.
After graduating from Cornell, Debra Smith '03 went to Namibia, where she taught school in a village, coached a novice team of teenage girls to the national championship in volleyball and was a surgical assistant in an Angolan hospital.
Chad Walter has made it to victory lane twice in the Daytona 500 -- the Super Bowl of NASCAR -- not behind the wheel of a winning stock car but on the team that engineered it.
Cornell researchers leading a multi-institutional team studying an eye disease infecting house finches have received a five-year $2.5 million National Science Foundation award to continue their work.
Members of the 1966 Cornell Glee Club, which made a historic tour of Asia, will perform together for the first time in 40 years during Homecoming, Oct. 14.
Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences will be a founding member of the Upstate New York Translational Research Network, part of the University of Rochester's new Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Research Notebook: More than eight out of 10 New York state residents consider childhood obesity a major problem, and almost half favor a ban on candy and soda advertising on children's television programming.
