Francisco Valero-Cuevas, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $239,992 research grant by the Whitaker Foundation to study the human thumb.
Eamon McEneaney, who was an All-American lacrosse player at Cornell in the 1970s and considered one of the best ever to play the game, is among the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Rather than pack used computer parts away in the closet, you can donate them to the Ithaca Youth Bureau, where local teen-agers will refurbish them and donate them to low-income families in the area.
Possible risks and benefits of genetically engineered foods and crops will be reviewed when Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State (BCERF) holds an ad hoc discussion group meeting Oct. 5.
The text of remarks by Walter LaFeber, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History, on Sept. 14, 2011, the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, at Cornell University.
President Hunter Rawlings issued this statement on Sept. 13: We have just learned that President Bush has designated this Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, as a national day of prayer and remembrance for the victims of 9/11.
President Hunter Rawlings and Director of Athletics J. Andrew Noel Jr. have announced the cancellation of all of the university's intercollegiate athletic events for this weekend in consideration of the recent national tragedy.
Roger Chartier, one of the world's foremost cultural historians, returns to Cornell this month for his final visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large.
