Kathryn Abrams, professor of law at Cornell University's Law School and a nationally recognized scholar on feminist jurisprudence, has been named the winner of the 2000 Anne Lukingbeal Award.
Cornell greenhouses contain plants for teaching, research and public viewing. With 163 complexes, Cornell now has the largest noncommercial greenhouse operation in New York state. (Aug. 30, 2007)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University students were honored recently for their community-service efforts. The Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards were presented on Friday, April 25, to sophomore Jamila Cutliff, junior Hilary Himes and senior Debbie Warren. The award was established by alumni Gerald Robinson '54 and Margot Robinson '55, and Robert Appel '53 and Helen Appel '55. It was created to recognize and honor students who have had significant involvement in community service by providing support for their projects which address a community's social needs or problems. Three students are selected, and each receives $1,500 to further a community-service project that he or she has initiated and proposed.
Cornell researcher Michael King shows that a tiny, implantable device can capture and kill cancer cells in the bloodstream before they spread through the body. (Dec. 10, 2008)
Faculty members gave undergraduates some concrete advice on the many practical uses for an English degree at a recent panel discussion organized by the student-run English Club. (April 24, 2008)
President David Skorton got off on the right foot at the 161st New York State Fair in Syracuse Aug. 23 by taking Cornell Cooperative Extension's "Choose Health" walking challenge, a 4-H initiative. (Aug. 24, 2007)
Persis Drell, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator and former professor of physics at Cornell, spoke to physicists and physics teachers on the state of national funding for the physical sciences.
The next great phase of research in the biological sciences is burgeoning at the crossroads where chemistry meets biology. To explore this cutting-edge interdisciplinary nexus, Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology will host a symposium.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) will host a National Transit Institute Fellows Workshop and the Federal Transit Administration's Advanced Public Transportation Systems Mobile Showcase.