Students affiliated with the Cornell Elderly Partnership regularly visit local seniors to help reduce the elders' social isolation and to better understand issues related to aging. (Sept. 27, 2010)
Two Cornell students garnered top honors in the first Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship, a national competition sponsored by Fine Books and Collections magazine.
Daniel McKee and David Rando, who tied for first place in…
On March 3, 40 student-developed digital technology projects were on display in Duffield Hall at the annual Bits on Our Minds exhibition. Some won awards from corporate sponsors. (March 5, 2010)
Hector Abruna, an expert in fuel cell technology, spoke on energy needs and solutions at the American Museum of Natural History's SciCafe in New York City March 15. (March 5, 2010)
In the memorably hot summer of 1988 in Newton, Mass., Jack Connor murdered his mother, father and grandmother. He left their corpses in the family home for a week, their lifeless faces covered with his grandmother's underwear, rosary beads in their hands.
Each summer, the Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers instructs middle and high school biology teachers on new teaching methods and activities, and the teachers don't have to pay a dime. (July 27, 2009)
Staff from the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture at New York University spoke to a Cornell audience Nov. 20 about how they help victims of torture heal. (Dec. 1, 2008)
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur will give a poetry reading Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell, is one of two scientists to share the prestigious 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for his "innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple."
On March 23 Cornell held a Library Salon at Lighthouse International in Manhattan that focused on the 1911 Triangle factory fire and the ILR School's Kheel Center collection and website about the fire. (March 28, 2011)