Unless the U.S. economy has a major downturn or New York state severely cuts funding, Cornell will not face significant downsizing, President David Skorton said Nov. 12 at his Annual Address to Staff. (Nov. 12, 2010)
Philanthropist and retired businessman Fred Young '64, M.Eng. '66, MBA '66, has committed $11 million to CCAT, a proposed 25-meter aperture telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.
From making exercise facilities more accessible to expanding counseling services at Gannett, students, faculty and staff shared their ideas on ways to build a more supportive community at an April 30 forum.
Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., located on the Cornell campus, will lecture in Marseille, France, Nov. 16, on how plant chemicals change the taste sensation for insects.
Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. (Oct. 9, 2009)
Gene Cretz, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya in more than 36 years, discussed diplomacy and U.S.-Libyan relations with about 100 students and faculty members in the Plant Sciences Building Oct. 7. (Oct. 8, 2009)
Cornell's self-driving car - and Segways - will soon to become safer and more talented, as a test bed for new research in robotics and artificial intelligence. (Oct. 5, 2009)
Joshua Goldman, a senior majoring in physics at Cornell University, is one of 40 student winners nationwide of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for two years of study in the United Kingdom.
The Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies program at Cornell University will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a two-day conference Nov. 19 and 20. Titled "The Queer's English," the conference features a slate of Cornell graduate alumni working in the field of queer studies. The two-day event opens with remarks from Provost Biddy Martin on Friday, Nov. 19, at 4:45 p.m. in the Cornell English Department Lounge, Room 258 of Goldwin Smith Hall. Martin's comments will be followed by two talks and a reception. The conference reconvenes Saturday at 10 a.m. in the lounge and concludes with a roundtable discussion at 4 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. For a complete list of speakers and the title of their talks, see . (November 18, 2004)