Novelist Alison Lurie, the F.J. Whiton Professor Emerita of American Literature at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 5 presentation, 'Secret Gardens and Enchanted Forests: Nature in Children's Literature.'
Oceanographer Chuck Greene is working to optimize an ocean-observing tool to collect and transmit ecosystem data to his desktop in real time, tracking the ocean like the weather. (Jan. 5, 2012)
Kayoko Hirata '11 has been named one of eight students in the United States to join the executive committee of the Japan-America Student Conference, which promotes Japanese-American relations. (Feb. 24, 2009)
Artificial tissues with an embedded vascular system and a skull base sealer were two Cornell student inventions honored as finalists in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. (Oct. 21, 2009)
By replacing outdated lighting and timers, great energy savings are expected to be realized in growth chambers in the greenhouses of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. (July 6, 2011)
For Cornell's second annual Fuel Cell Ride and Drive, representatives from Toyota, GM and Mercedes-Benz publicly displayed each company's hydrogen fuel-cell car prototype. (Oct. 20, 2009)
A Dec. 10-11 accidental discharge of non-hazardous treated wastewater from Cornell's digester of animal remains was caused by programming issues that were traced to the digester's manufacturer. (Dec. 22, 2010)
Part motivational speech, part socio-economic update, Ricardo Martinelli's April 11 talk wove personal anecdotes with statistics demonstrating the positive changes his administration has effected.
Carl A. Kroch, a legendary bookseller who was a foremost benefactor of Cornell University, died March 6 of natural causes at his home in Chicago. He was 84.